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Old 13-08-2007, 01:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi, I have an external drive, and I would like to backup my HD movies. But the problem is that the partition in the external drive are FAT32, which cannot store more than 4gb per file. So, I want to know how I exactly I can format the partitions to NTFS without any data loss.

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Old 13-08-2007, 04:24 PM   #2 (permalink)
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in command prompt type this

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convert z: /fs:ntfs
where z is d drive letter assigned 2 ur ext drive

uner ideal circumstances u shudnt lose ne data in this conversion process
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Go to computer management>Storage>Disk management here you should see the disk provided you have attatched it to pc
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