Gawnn Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I have a 1TB WD external hardrive this is about 90% full. My computer takes FOREVER to access files on it. I assumed it was because of the old file format type. Due to the size of the infomation on the drive I don't have a way to back up the files to reformat the drive with NTFS. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to change the file allocation tables without losing the data on the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Windows supplies a conversion utility to convert FAT to NTFS; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881/.I recommend that you defragment the drive first (which can take a very long time for such large data). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 You may find that just a defragmentation will vastly improve the performance of the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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