Is it OK to change the C drive format to NTFS?

Hello, such a format of the server hard disk format, if it is time for home use, do it with fat32

That's okay, NTFS is a disk format supported by the Windows NT kernel family of operating systems, specially designed for network and disk quotas, file encryption and other management security features, providing long file names, data protection and recovery, security through directory and file licensing, and support across partitions.

NTFS is a log file system, which means that in addition to writing information to disk, the file system keeps a log of all changes that occur. This feature makes the NTFS file system easier to recover from in the event of an error, such as a system crash or power outage**, and makes the system stronger.

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NTFS: A disk format supported by the Microsoft Windows NT kernel family of operating systems specifically designed for network and disk quotas, file encryption and other management security features. With the popularization of Windows 2000 XP with NT as the kernel, many individual users have begun to use NTFS.

NTFS also stores data files in clusters, but the size of the cluster in NTFS does not depend on the size of the disk or partition. The reduction in cluster size not only reduces the waste of disk space, but also reduces the possibility of disk fragmentation. NTFS supports file encryption management and provides users with a higher level of security.

To convert a C drive to NTFS format is to convert the FAT32 you are using now to NTFS.

Currently, NTFS and FAT32 are the two main system file formats.

FAT32 is a type of partition format for hard disk in Windows system. This format uses a 32-bit file allocation table, which greatly enhances its disk management capabilities, breaking through the FAT16 limit of only 2 GB per partition.

Due to the decline in the production cost of hard disks, its capacity is getting larger and larger, after using the FAT32 partition format, we can define a large hard disk as a partition instead of dividing it into several partitions, which greatly facilitates the management of disks. It has been replaced by the more high-performance NTFS partition format.

NTFS is the standard file system for Windows NT and later Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. NTFS replaces the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system to provide a file system for Microsoft's Windows family of operating systems.

NTFS has made several improvements to FAT and HPFS (High Performance File System), such as support for metadata, the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization, and several additional extensions such as access control lists (ACLs) and file system logs.

The detailed definition of this file system is a trade secret, but Microsoft has registered it as a guessed intellectual property product.

NTFS Overview: NTFS (New Technology File System) is a file system for the Windows NT operating environment and the Windows NT Advanced Server Network Operating System environment.

1.Select the Start Run command, enter the Cmd command in the pop-up dialog box (or click the Start Program Attachment Command Prompt) to open the Command Prompt window.

2.Once the window opens, enter it at the prompt of the cursor.

convert disk:/fs:ntfs

disk: the drive, both in case and lowercase).

Then press enter. Notice that there is a space after "convert".

For example: convert f: fs: ntfs converts f drive to ntfs format.

3.Then, if the drive has a volume label, the system will ask you to enter the volume label of the disk, and then press Enter; Added: To view the volume label: right-click on the disk Properties General.

If the drive does not have a volume label, the conversion is carried out directly.

4.Once the conversion is complete, it reports the converted disk partitions.

Notes:1Remember: it's convert, not covert

If convert can't lock a drive (for example, if the drive is a system volume or a current drive), it automatically starts converting the drive before it enters the desktop the next time you restart the computer. If you can't restart your computer immediately to complete the conversion, schedule a time to restart your computer and allow the required time for the conversion process.

If there are files on the partition you want to convert that are being used by the system, then when converting, the converter will ask if you want to unmount the volume (i.e. partition) you want to convert, in this case it is best to select "No", and finally it will ask if you want to convert the partition the next time the computer starts, select "Yes" and restart the machine to complete the conversion.

2.Use the convert command to convert the file format from FAT to NTFS, leaving the existing files and folders intact.