External Hard drive fat32 to NTFS?

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  1. majd
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    h: being ur hdd
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  3. majd
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    hope it helps
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  4. irbullet
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    I just broke down and formatted it. What all will I need to backup for my games saves and everything?
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  6. Layback Bear
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    Can you tell us what you finally decided to do to get it to format.
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  7. AddRAM
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  8. Golden
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    Ignatz is spot on : chkdsk /R (which is one step better than /F) will do the trick.
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