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6th April 2012, 06:47 PM #1Notebook Enthusiast
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Convert External Hard Drive from fat32 to NTFS without losing data in linux
After many problems with my laptop, I now believe I need to replace my hard drive. I am trying to copy large files over to my WD external hard drive, but Ubuntu always stop at 4.3GB. I have copied files larger than 50GB before onto it from windows, so this problem coming up is bizarre. I have looked on Google and found ways to do this conversion without losing data in a windows command prompt. Here is my problem, I cannot boot my windows partition because of an error on the hard drive (that is causing me to do this in the first place). How do I convert my external HD from fat32 to NTFS from Ubuntu, without losing any data? Any help will be appreciated!!
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6th April 2012, 06:55 PM #2
Re: Convert External Hard Drive from fat32 to NTFS without losing data in linux
4GB is the filesize limit on FAT32 so that behavior is to be expected.
You can't convert to NTFS from FAT using Linux. You can only do this from Windows. Make sure to do a full disk check before you do the conversion.
Check your hard disk for errors
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6th April 2012, 07:01 PM #3Notebook Enthusiast
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Re: Convert External Hard Drive from fat32 to NTFS without losing data in linux
Current: Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E520 | Intel Core i5 2410M 2.3 GHz (2.9 w/ Turbo)| 8 GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM | 15.6" HD display | 500 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drve | Intel HD Graphics 3000
Broken Dell XPS M1530 | Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0 GHz | 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM | 320 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive | 15.4" WXGA | Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB card



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