Table of Contents
- This Video will explain How to Convert a Local Disk or USB Drive FAT32 File format to NTFS file format Without loss in Data like Images, Videos, Audio etc.
- Use the convert command from a cmd prompt type convert /? For correct syntax ( convert: fs/ntfs ) External drives come formatted FAT32 because it can be used directly by windows, linux and MAC, other file systems are not natively cross platform.
Another way to convert NTFS to FAT32 without losing data is to use the Windows Disk Management tool. However, instead of directly formatting the drive to FAT32, you'll first have to shrink the volume to half of its size if you want to keep your data safe. Bad news is that there is a lot of format utility that supports to directly convert FAT16/FAT32 to NTFS directly without losing data, however, we found no exFAT to NTFS converter software available so far, even EaseUS Partition Master does not support the direct change from exFAT to NTFS on an HDD, USB drive or memory card.
My wd external usb disk 1TB suddenly turned to raw and asked for a formatting.. The external drive was bought 2 years ago and was used for 2 times only for work files and folders. This morning when I took it with me to my office, it warned a reformat window when I get it connected to Windows 10. How did it become raw file system? Is there any method to convert the raw external disk to ntfs without losing data?
From Alan
Raw file system asked formatting
Why removable disk became raw file system?
RAW means unexplored, not used, blank. When it happened to a hard drive, it means the hard drive is damaged with an unrecognized file system. There are several possible causes that your disk may become raw format.
- Virus infected the file system and get it damaged that Windows or your pc can no longer recognize its old file system.
- Format failure - or software failure brought by third party programs that failed to operate a formatting on your disk drive, when the formatting failed, the file system which the formatting worked on, shall became damaged too.
- Improper manul operations - remove/unplug the hard drive without safely removal
- Power failure unexpectly
- Internal errors on usb hard drive like bad blocks, chip error, logical inside errors..
If the usb disk became raw, keep it untouched from further use. What you should do is to rescue its inside data if they are of very importance to you. Here this article we would introduce freeware for you to rescue your data from raw disk.
Convert external hard drive raw file system to ntfs/fat32/exfat with freeware in Windows 10/8/7
There are two steps for converting an raw external hard drive to ntfs/exfat/fat32 no matter how the usb disk turned to raw format.
Part1: Recover data from raw external usb drive with freeware
iCare Data Recovery Free is a free program that you may use for free recovering files from inaccessible raw usb disk drive.
Step#1: Download, Install the program and connect raw hard drive to Windows 10/8/7 and then launch the freeware, choose 'Advanced File Recovery'
Start iCare for fixing raw drive
Step 2: Select the raw usb hard drive and then click 'next' to start raw drive recovery
Select raw drive to recover
Step 3: Save files found in the raw drive to another hard drive.
Recover data from raw drive.
Part#2: Repair bad file system by Windows file system repair
Step 1: Open 'This PC' and then see whether you can see your raw disk there, if yes, right click the disk and then go to its 'Properties'
Step 2: Click Tools and then Check button to start repairing the file system errors.
repair file system error checking
Step 3: Confirm the check disk options and then start
repair file system error checking 2
When the repairing finished, see whether your hard drive was working as normal or not. If it still shows raw disk, then you need to try the following free format tools to convert raw to ntfs/fat32/exfat.
Diskpart cmd to convert raw external disk to ntfs/fat32/exfat
Elementary steps to understanding pdf free. Before using diskpart cmd, please make sure you have no important data on the raw disk that needed to be resuced, or any change onto the disk may result in further damage to its inside data.
Photo tutorial: How to format usb disk raw file system to ntfs/fat32/exfat using cmd
Step#1: Press Windows icon+R to open the cmd
Exfat To Fat32 Converter
open cmd with 'windows + R' key
Step#2: type 'Diskpart' to launch diskpart command prompt.
open diskpart
- 3, type 'select disk *'
- 4, type 'clean'
- 5, type 'create partition primary'
- 6, type 'format fs=ntfs quick' or 'format fs=fat32 quick' or type 'format fs=exfat quick' depends on what kind of file system you need - fat32/exfat/ntfs
format raw file system ntfs with diskpart
Video: how to convert raw to ntfs
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Main Function
- Undeleted : Recover deleted files from Convert exfat to NTFS
- Unformat: Recover data from formatted exfat Drive to ntfs
- Recover partition : Recover data from Convert exfat to NTFS partition
- Raw Recovery : Recover data Convert exfat to NTFS file system
System Requirements
- OS: Microsoft Windows 7 8 XP 10 8.1 (32bit/64bit)
- RAM: 64MB RAM or more .
- Disk : 128 M Disk Space or more
Part#2: Repair bad file system by Windows file system repair
Step 1: Open 'This PC' and then see whether you can see your raw disk there, if yes, right click the disk and then go to its 'Properties'
Step 2: Click Tools and then Check button to start repairing the file system errors.
repair file system error checking
Step 3: Confirm the check disk options and then start
repair file system error checking 2
When the repairing finished, see whether your hard drive was working as normal or not. If it still shows raw disk, then you need to try the following free format tools to convert raw to ntfs/fat32/exfat.
Diskpart cmd to convert raw external disk to ntfs/fat32/exfat
Elementary steps to understanding pdf free. Before using diskpart cmd, please make sure you have no important data on the raw disk that needed to be resuced, or any change onto the disk may result in further damage to its inside data.
Photo tutorial: How to format usb disk raw file system to ntfs/fat32/exfat using cmd
Step#1: Press Windows icon+R to open the cmd
Exfat To Fat32 Converter
open cmd with 'windows + R' key
Step#2: type 'Diskpart' to launch diskpart command prompt.
open diskpart
- 3, type 'select disk *'
- 4, type 'clean'
- 5, type 'create partition primary'
- 6, type 'format fs=ntfs quick' or 'format fs=fat32 quick' or type 'format fs=exfat quick' depends on what kind of file system you need - fat32/exfat/ntfs
format raw file system ntfs with diskpart
Video: how to convert raw to ntfs
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Ntfs To Exfat Converter
Convert exfat to NTFS without Losing Data in Windows 7/8/10 on External Hard Drive usb flash drive/memory sd card using command prompt without formatting
Convert Exfat To Ntfs Without Losing Data Reddit
if you have any question, please contact us (support@bplandatarecovery.com)
Main Function
- Undeleted : Recover deleted files from Convert exfat to NTFS
- Unformat: Recover data from formatted exfat Drive to ntfs
- Recover partition : Recover data from Convert exfat to NTFS partition
- Raw Recovery : Recover data Convert exfat to NTFS file system
System Requirements
- OS: Microsoft Windows 7 8 XP 10 8.1 (32bit/64bit)
- RAM: 64MB RAM or more .
- Disk : 128 M Disk Space or more
Supported File Formats
- Document : Word (DOC, DOCX) Excel (XLS, XLSX)
- PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX)
- Photo Image : JPG, NEF, CR2, X3F, SR2, PNG
- Video : AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, FLV, TOD, AVCHD, MOV, DV, RM, QT, TS, MTS
- Audio : MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP4, M4A, FLAC, MPC, MP+, MPP, AIFF, AC3, APE, MP2, MP1, M4B, XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX, etc
- Compression : ZIP RAR, 7zip
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