Drive name limited to 11 characters

Open up an Elevated Command Prompt. Click on in type CMD . Right click on CMD under Programs (1) choose . On the User Access Control window click on the Yes button . Command Prompt opens up to C:\Windows\System32>_

Just tried your process but my Win7 32bit does not have the features quoted
I tried your steps in both "Classic Start" UI and default Win7 UI

Click on "Start"
Run:= CMD ... opens command prompt ... C:\Users\Owner>
Search:= CMD ... opens command prompt ... C:\windows\system32>
1: No "Run as Administrator" on RClick context menu
2: No "Programs (1)" to select
3: No User Access Control window
4: No "Yes" button

Should I just log-in as administrator to carry out the conversion, and bypass 1: thru 4: ?
The only way I can get C:\windows\system32> is via "Search"
Would the cmd string be ...

Code:

C:\windows\system32>Convert X: /FS:NTFS

... OR ... should there be a space as in ...

Code:

C:\windows\system32> Convert X: /FS:NTFS

Thank you for your patience

Did you disable the User Account Control perhaps? (that's the screen dimming and popup when you are running administrator stuff asking password or a yes/no)

If it's disabled you can't run stuff as an admin unless you are logged in with an admin account. Log as an admin and follow the same procedure, if there is no "run as admin" even in the admin account you can bypass 1 through 4 and assume that you have full privileges anyway.

When you open a CMD as admin it's set to C:\windows\system32> by default (that text is already there).

No space is required before the text you write.

Remember to write the drive letter of your usb thumbdrive instead of the X: or it will think it has to work on drive X: (that on most systems does not exist) and will return an error.

My apologies for this belated thank you

bobafetthotmail +1
My post #11 ... after re-reading your directions and risking the process on a spare thumb drive....
... I got carried away with Enter key after I typed "cmd" in the "Search" edit box.
I failed to notice the list of search results as a result of Search:= cmd. ...

Right-Clicked on "cmd.exe" (ie, programs(1) list item
There after ... it all fell into place as you instructed.
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LMiller7 +1
Safe Removal:
After years of sometimes difficult/sticky storage devices (and once I lost some data) for two years I have used the commercial version of "USB Safely Remove". It tells me where the problem is rather than Windows bland "device cannot be removed". Progress bar "shows" me something is happening.
My employees and significant other love it. Happy campers are happy workers.
(With Windows safe removal I could never tell if Windows was doing anything or Uncle Bill had nodded off.)

Thumb Drives:
Thank you for the advice. I have been using a thumb drive with 4,388 txt files of code snippets + info.
(Fifteen years of accumulated VBA/VBScript/formulas/etc stuff)
Have now moved all those txt files onto an external pocket HDD.
Not as quick as the thumb drive but now more secure.
Thank you. ++1
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One trick I learnt after reformatting an external storage device (to clear all data) ...
ie, WinExp > Drive-letter > RClick > Format ...
• Remove the USB device after reformatting then reconnect to populate the device with any data.
Else Windows does not allow safely-remove.
I don't know if the same applies to "FileSystem" change

How I did it! With homage to "bobafetthotmail "

   Note

- modifies storage device's File System
- converting FAT32 to NTFS
- does not affect (nor delete) data files
Start > Search:= cmd
- on list of search results
cmd.exe > RClick
"Run as Administrator" ... LClick
User Account Control (UAC) ... alert
[Yes] ... Click
- Command prompt screen opens with ...
C:\Windows\System32>_
- then type Convert x: /FS:NTFS ... where "x" = drive device to be changed
ie, one line example: C:\Windows\System32>_Convert f: /FS:NTFS
(where "f" is the target drive)
[Enter] key