How to easily Convert your drive from FAT32 to NTFS

Gone are the days of 128MB, 512MB or even 2GB flashdrives.
These days the average flashdrive size among most of my friends is 8GB.  Same so, the average size of the external hard drives being carried around is about 250GB.  Now what this means is that more and more persons are now able to (or should be able to) carry pretty big files around with them, be it HD videos or image files.

So what is the problem?

Well, very few persons with these "big" storage devices bother to convert them from the FAT32 format that they come with to the NTFS format that will allow for the storing of files that are over 4GB in size.

Let me break that down; the way most of these drives come (the file system) would not allow you to store any file that is bigger than 4GB, so in order to save that 6GB 1080p Bluray movie to the device you will need to change it's file format from FAT32 to NTFS, something which normally requires formatting the device which deleets everything that is on the device.  But there is another way: use Convert.exe

• Step 1 - Click on start in Windows 7 and type cmd - this finds the command prompt. 
• Step 2 - Hit enter
• Step 3 - Type convert x: /fs:ntfs (where x is the actual drive letter of the drive you wish to convert)
• Step 4 - Hit enter
• Step 5 - Be patient, it may take a while

NB: While this method theoretically will not destroy your data, I strongly recommend that you backup your files first.