diskpart convert ntfs to fat32 without formatting

#Diskpart convert ntfs to fat32 without formatting portable#

#Diskpart convert ntfs to fat32 without formatting portable#

Note that, if you want to move large files to Portable or Internal Drive, set the Allocation Size to 4096 Bytes, as in the case of NTFS. Windows do not allow internal partitions to be formatted in ExFat by default so we need to follow Disk Part approach! Type diskpart into the Command Prompt window and hit Enter.

Type cmd in Windows Search, right-click on Command Prompt and select 'Run as administrator'. However, I am also giving following solution for someone who may want to format the internal partition to exFat. Connect the storage device that you need to convert from NTFS to FAT32 to your PC. Here you have two solutions! One to simply format using the right clicking on partition and click on format which will work on external hard drives only. What I did, is left my laptop for hours to get this done! Caution: Portables are not supposed to run for hours. When you are done with creating another partition, move the data to the new partition, which is pretty time consuming I get that. Enter the size that is enough to copy all the data, then continue. To shrink the partition, click a partition that you want to shrink, and click on Shrink. What you can do is, Shrink the partition in your Portable, using Windows management tools (right click 'computer' and goto Management, then goto 'Disk Management'). Since I was also looking for this solution and found nothing really working! I did a workaround. Assuming you are using Microsoft Windows, I have an idea for you.