Convert Partitions in Partition Expert

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Convert NTFS to FAT32

FAT32 partitions are used for some devices like Xbox one, and Play Station 3 (PS3).

Most of the partitions are defaulted to NTFS when formatting and Windows Disk Management is also able to create FAT32 partition by deleting the NTFS and all your stored information, but we need to convert NTFS to FAT32 without data loss, so run Partition Expert and do as follow:

  1. - Click on the NTFS partition and choose the option Convert to FAT32 from the sidebar.
  2. - When the dialog says: This program will convert this volume to FAT32, click OK to start conversion now. Click OK.
  3. - Then click Commit after this operation added to the pending list.

The conversion will finish in seconds without reboot and it will keep data intact too.

Partition Expert is the all-in-one disk managing tool, but if you’re not interested in other features, you can use the freeware NTFS to FAT32 Converter instead, which is a portable program with 64-bit package too.

Steps of using Converter:

  1. - Click on the NTFS partition when disk-list loaded in the main interface.
  2. - When the partition you clicked is highlighted, click on the huge button Convert Now.
  3. - Click OK to the prompt message and the program will starts to convert.

This freeware has only one function that is to do the conversion from NTFS to FAT32, if you want to create and format new partition, you can try Partition Expert instead.

Convert Primary partition to Logical

We can create four primary partitions at most on MBR disk, when we run Disk Management and intend to create the fifth partition on unallocated space, the New partition option in the right-click menu will gray out unless we delete a primary partition and create an Extended partition can we active that option again.

Convert Primary partition to logical without data loss in Partition Expert:

  1. - Click on a primary partition from the disk-map, click on the last one is recommended, and choose Convert to Logical.
  2. - When prompt message ask for your confirmation, click OK.
  3. - In the main interface click Commit to start the conversion.

    4. You may have noticed that when clicking on C Drive, the first primary partition, this convert to logical function is disappeared. That’s not a bug, but we blocked it. C Drive, the system partition, needs to be primary partition so the operating system is able to boot.

Convert Logical partition to Primary

We already know that system can only be installed on primary partition and if we want to dual-system on one disk, we need to convert another logical partition to primary again, how can we convert a logical partition to primary without deleting any data and re-recreate a partition? Our Partition Expert is the right choice, download, install and Run it.

  1. - Click on the Logical partition on the same disk or other disk and click Convert to Primary.
  2. - When the prompt message shows click OK to confirm.
  3. - Click Commit in the main window to start.

You can create as many as logical partitions on MBR disk with Partition Expert, but you can have at most 3 primary partitions if you have many logical partitions in the Extended partition section and you can have 4 primary partitions without creating other partitions.

Confused? Actually, all logical partitions are belonging to the Extended partition. Run Disk management and you’ll see.

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