Background
The file system is often FAT32 on memory card, usb flash drive, hard drive no matter external drive or internal disk used on computer. When some damage happened on those digital devices, their file system would become RAW filesystem, which cannot be recognized by Windows computer or your phone/camera.
Some experienced Windows users may know the cmd provided by Windows provides the function of 'Diskpart', a well known cmd that is able to perform functions like format, delete, clean for computer hard drive, external disk, or usb pendrive/memory card connected as external drive with a cable/card reader to PC.
Can we change file system raw to fat32 without losing inside files on the raw drive? Here we would like to share some useful guide of converting raw to fat32 file system when you want to perform the converting without formatting or losing data, or you may want to do it using cmd.
Raw file system asked formatting
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A memory card or usb disk/flash often turns to raw unformatted due to virus infection, power surge, unsafe removal or other unknow errors with bad sectors occurred during years of use included in the list of reason too. When fat32 is mostly used on memory card, flash drive, they were made fat32 file system by factories when they came to the market.
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Computer geeks may know there is simple cmd named diskpart that could do the trick for converting the raw file system to fat32. Diskpart can do the magic if you are experienced computer users when you want to change the file system from raw to fat32. This cmd is built inside of Microsoft Windows OS that means you need to run this conversion on Windows OS.
To open diskpart.exe, you may use Windows icon on your keyboard and then press R at the same time. Do press Windows icon and R to start CMD, and then you may type 'diskpart'.
Once diskpart is ready for you, here are the steps that you may follow for the format changing.
Step#1: type 'list volume', please make sure you have already connected your raw drive to PC. Get sd card connected to pc with a card reader.
Step#2: type 'select volume *', the volume number varies according to your own raw drive that shows on your PC.
Step#3: type 'format fs=fat32 quick'
Step#4: type 'exit'
format raw file system fat32 using cmd
If you are non computer geeks, don't worry, there are still very simple ways that you may do the converting by a format tool. In fact there are several tools that can do the conversion from raw to fat32.
Best and fastest raw to fat32 format tool - Disk management
Disk management is provided by Windows too. You may access it by the following way to open disk management, format function.
Preparation: get your raw sd/drive to PC with a card reader/cable
Right clicking 'This PC' on your computer
Go to option - 'Manage'
This PC - Manage
Click 'Disk Management' at this step
Open disk management
Right click the raw drive when disk management sees your raw drive
Format raw drive by Disk Management
Format it to fat32
Format raw drive to ntfs/fat32
Here are more tools free: 3 free tool for converting raw to fat32
Here in the above content, we have introduced freeware iCare Data Recovery Free which is totally free for you to convert raw to fat32 file system without losing data. And you may also use format tool to convert raw to fat32 if you do not want to use cmd nor disk management for the converting. We have also mentioned a link of other free software that you may use for the file system conversion.
As far as we discovered on the internet, there is no such website that could provide an online tool/service to convert raw file system fat32.
So the best solution for making the file system changing is to use disk management or cmd to make the formatting.
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