NTFS to FAT32 converter

Orionaut · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:43

Anybody have any experience of using one of these, In particular this one.

http://ntfs-to-fat32-wizard-free.en.softonic.com/

I have a friend with 300 gigs or so of audio files on an NTFS disk that her Denon wont read because it uses FAT32, she found this link and asked me about it

She could reformat and re down load from her main PC (So it wouldn't be the end of the world if the converter didn't work, just rather time consuming)

I am actually more concerned that, being "Free" it will come bundled with crap-ware that will take (Me) ages to clean out!

So, has anybody successfully used this? or anything similar?

Semple · 21 Apr 2015 at 09:06

It wouldn't be of any use anyway, checked the user reviews, and...

"sucks. Does not convert anything above 8GB" - seems the "Free" version is rather limited!

pdaboy · 21 Apr 2015 at 10:20

Connect up an external hard drive and move the files onto there temporarily and then format the drive as fat32 and move the files back.
If windows doesnt let you format it as fat32 then use something like this tool
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

Quartz · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:33

Windows has a limit of 32 GB on creating a FAT32 partition.

Quartz · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:40

Something to check, though is if the Denon can use ExFAT (aka FAT64) because Windows can create the partition directly. Instructions here.