Converting disk from exfat to ntfs without losing data?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

I want to convert an external ssd from exfat to ntfs. The problem is I have 3TB worth of data on it so backing it up to another drive and then formatting it to ntfs would take forever since I don’t have any other ssds that are that size, only mechanical HDDs which only have a write speed of like 250 mb/s. Is there a way to convert it without losing any of my data that is already on the ssd?

[xrobwx71]

so backing it up to another drive and then formatting it to ntfs would take forever

By this, I assume you have no backup of the data at all?

[Bruce]

Not possible in my experience.
Unless there is some new tool I haven’t heard of which of course is highly possible.

Changing from FAT, NTFS, exFat, or what have you has always required a re-format of the medium, therefore destroying its contents

[PeterOz]

Same here
I’ve been looking to see if someone has a new tool I did not know about.
Came up blank.

The problem is I have 3TB worth of data on it

How big is the drive if you have 3TB of data how much free room do you have?

[xrobwx71]

I concur, I know you can convert partition types, MBR to GPT on the fly but not file systems.

[Bruce]

@Brandon Byrnes - where we at?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

sorry for the late reply. after tons of looking and downloading programs and then uninstalling them I ended up transferring everything from the drive to 2 other drives then reformatting the drive to ntfs, then transferring everything back to the drive. It’s surprising there hasn’t been a way to change hte format of drive yet without losing it’s data.

[Bruce]

Excellent, if not long winded.
Will close. (y)