Ken wrote:
> I have a Western Digital external hard drive formated in the FAT32 filing
> system. I want to convert it to the NTFS system so that I can back up my
> entire C drive which is running Vista. What is the procedure? WD support
> refers me only to the XP procedure.
You can safely convert your current hard drive to NTFS whenever
desired, without having to format the partition and reinstall
everything. As always when performing any serious changes, back up any
important data before proceeding, just in case. A little advance
preparation is also strongly recommended, so you can avoid any
performance hits caused by the default cluster size:
Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm
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