In previous articles, we examined the difference between NTFS and FAT32, and the main pros and cons of FAT32 and NTFS. This system has multiple additional features for built-in drives in devices with Windows OS (like Windows 10), including increased data security with data encryption, better file management, creating shadow copies of files for backup, etc. However, there are other reasons you might want to convert to NTFS without losing data. When trying to copy any file larger than 4 GB, you will see the following error: “The file is too large for the destination file system”. With any FAT32 media, you can’t save a DVD image file or virtual machine files, and you can’t copy a film in high quality. The main reason to convert FAT32 to NTFS without data loss is the limit in file and partition size in the older system. FAT32 is the latest version of the FAT file system developed due to improving the previous version known as FAT16. NTFS (as abbreviated from “new technology file system”) is a standard file system for the operating systems of the Windows NT family by Microsoft.įAT32 (from “File Allocation Table”) is a file system developed by Microsoft, one of the FAT variants.

Today there are two most popular file systems, FAT32 and NTFS.