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    Jun 17, 2019 6 minutes

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    EXFAT FILE CONVERSION QUERY

    I have an external 3TB hard drive with 500GB of data on it, formatted as NTFS. Can I convert this to exFAT without losing any data?

    Wayne Scowen

    Sadly no – the recommended, and safest, option is to copy the files to another drive before reformatting the drive to exFAT, then copying or moving them back. If the drive is less than half full, however, another option would be to use a tool like AOMEI Partition Standard (free from www. disk-partition.com). Once installed, launch the program. Right-click the current NTFS partition and choose Resize Partition. Shrink the partition to free up enough space to fit your data on, then click OK. You’ll see unallocated space appear next to the shrunk partition – right-click this and choose Create Partition – make sure its file system is exFAT, make a note of the drive letter it’s been allocated and click OK again.

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