Convert To NTFS question

This is a discussion about Convert To NTFS question in the Windows Software category; I have a C & D hard drive (2 seperate hard drivers) & the c drive is NTFS but D is FAT 32 i want to convert D to NTFS but when i use the commad convert D: /fs:ntfs it gives me an error saying Convert Is not Available for RAW drives.

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I have a C & D hard drive (2 seperate hard drivers) & the c drive is NTFS but D is FAT 32 i want to convert D to NTFS but when i use the commad convert D: /fs:ntfs it gives me an error saying "Convert Is not Available for RAW drives".

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If you've got the drive space, copy your files from D to C and reformat the drive as NTFS. This will be better anyway, because you won't be stuck with 512-byte clusters.
 
If you don't have the space, you'll have to use a third-party utility, like Partition Magic.