Fat32 Or Ntfs External Hard Drive

FAT32 is the older of the two drive formats. FAT32 is the most common version of the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system created back in 1977 by Microsoft. It eventually found its way on the. NTFS is ideal for internal drives, while exFAT is generally ideal for flash drives and external drives. FAT32 has much better compatibility compared with NTFS, but it only supports individual files up to 4GB in size and partitions up to 2TB. While NTFS is more advanced file system and it don't have file or partition limits.

External Hard Drive Ntfs Format
Format Disk Ntfs Or Fat32
Flash Drive Ntfs Or Fat32

Are you trying to convert a NTFS external hard drive to FAT32 file system? It sounds ridiculous because NTFS is usually considered as a file system that has better performance, but sometimes you do need to convert a disk or external hard drive to FAT32 file system for better management. For whatever reason, do you have any clue on free to convert an external hard drive from NTFS file system to FAT32?

Common Methods to Convert External HDD NTFS to FAT32

There are two common methods to convert an external hard drive from NTFS to FAT32 file system:

1. Format external hard drive from NTFS to FAT32
This is the easiest way to change file system of external hard drive to FAT32. This method is available for external HDD converting in all Windows platform.

Pay attention: Backup data in advance because format will erase everything.

> To get all methods to format an external hard drive, please visit this page: Format NTFS to FAT32 on Windows

> Related Article: Convert NTFS to FAT32 without format

2. Use a NTFS FAT32 converter

There are many NTFS FAT32 convert tools online. If you would like to use any converter to change external hard drive from NTFS to FAT32, you can search NTFS FAT32 free converter online so that you can see many free convert tools.

> For more other methods to convert NTFS to FAT32, please go to this page: Convert NTFS to FAT32 without data loss

External Hard Drive Is Too Large to Convert to FAT32

Have you ever received the alert message saying an external hard drive is too large to convert to FAT32? Let’s see a user’s FAQ firstly:

External Hard Drive Ntfs Format

'I tried to format my 232GB external hard drive to FAT32 file system, but it only shows NTFS an exFAT under file system section while formatting it. When run cmd to convert the external hard drive from NTFS to FAT32, it says the volume is too large to convert to FAT32.'

>> To read the original question of this user, please visit User from Microsoft forum who failed to convert external hard drive from NTFS to FAT32

Solution:

For the question above, following information may give you some clue:

1. In order to meet users’ demand for a large amount of data storage, today’s external hard drive usually has a high capacity from 500GB to 4TB. For the security of data and good performance, an external hard drive was often formatted to NTFS or exFAT32 file system. Although Windows system still allows its users to read and write data on any portable HDD that has FAT32 file system, it disables users to format an external hard drive to FAT32 file system when its capacity is larger than 32GB.

2. Command prompt has the ability to convert partition file system, but it does not allow anybody to convert NTFS to FAT32 on any Windows operating system. What you can do is to run Command prompt to convert FAT32 to NTFS.

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Free to Change Hard Disk Partition from NTFS to FAT32

Hard disk usually refers to the internal hard drive on a computer. Windows system like Widows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and Windows 10 support both NTFS and FAT32 file system on a hard disk partition.
If you want to convert any hard disk partition from NTFS to FAT32 file system, you can use the same methods mentioned above which are used to change removable hard drive.

Format Disk Ntfs Or Fat32

In addition to all methods above, you can also use a partition magic tool to convert hard disk partition to FAT32. IM-Magic Partition Resizer has the ability to change partition file system without needing to format the disk or erase any data.

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