Thus, the users of DiskPart should be professional enough. Every operation in DiskPart is performed via different command lines. Use DiskPartĭiskPart is a Windows built-in program utility as mentioned above for hard disk and partition management. However, this time, we’re handling a system partition that contains critical boot files which means you cannot use Disk Management anymore under the Windows environment and we can only use DiskPart by booting into Command Prompt instead of going to the desktop. With them, you can change the files system by reformatting the partition. When it comes to FAT32 to NTFS conversion, many people will first think of Disk Management and DiskPart Windows built-in utilities.

How to convert the boot partition to NTFS? If your current partition is in FAT32, then, to finish the Windows installation, you must reformat it to NTFS beforehand. Since Windows Vista, you can only install an OS to NTFS drives. FAT32 and exFAT are older file systems and you can’t install an OS on them. The cause of the issue is that your boot partition was not correctly set as NTFS but FAT32 or exFAT. One of them is the error prompt 'Windows must be installed to a NTFS partition” when you come to the step where you should choose location to store the OS. When installing Windows operating system, you could encounter many problems. Overview of the error “Windows must be installed to a NTFS partition”

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