Comments on: Convert Hard Drive from FAT32 to NTFS to Run Windows Faster

By: jr

jr — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:30:54 +0000

I followed the instructions carefully to convert FAT32 to NTFS but everytime I press the enter button to convert or continue to the next drive it always says: ” invalid parameter: so ” it is very annoying what should I do in order to consumate the conversion? Please advise. Thank you.

By: Tertius

Tertius — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:45:16 +0000

Just one thing that I would advise when doing this, don’t have passwords on your accounts (well, if you have to then you have to).

If windows gets busted, you can’t recover encrypted files. I’ve ran into that wall a couple of times.

By: Manish Kapoor

Manish Kapoor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:36:03 +0000

If you’re talking strictly about speed, FAT32 is the faster filesystem having lower overhead from being a much simpler filesystem.

We use NTFS for a number of reasons. Security, efficiency of storage, and fault protection. NTFS supports file permissions both in a traditional Unix style and also Access Control Lists (ACLs), which can work to help contain viruses and other unwanted pests. NTFS is also considerably more efficient about using the storage capacity of the hard drive to that of FAT32. NTFS also has some journaling features which help prevent data loss when things such as a sudden power loss occurs.

By: Rick @ windows forum

Rick @ windows forum — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:16:34 +0000

I believe les is correct, but as I expected when I purchased my new laptop with windows vista, the hard drive was already set to NTFS. Saved me a little time anyway. On a side note, I like that you don’t have to click Start>Run anymore with vista.

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By: les

les — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:16:37 +0000

You fail to say whether or not any data would be destroyed. Also – it is not quite that simple – the hard drive needs to be unmounted before converting.

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