Oops! VMware Fusion would not run the new configuration, so I did some researching and found that I really needed to create a new Bootcamp virtual machine by deleting the %2Fdev%2Fdisk0 virtual machine settings under the /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Bootcamp directory.ĭoing so forced VMware Fusion to create a new Bootcamp virtual machine interface, but I had difficulty booting into it.
#BOOTCAMP MAC FORMAT NTFS WINDOWS#
Then I booted back into OSX and attempted to run Windows via my existing VMware Fusion virtual machine. After a bit of testing, it was clear to me that the defrag really improved the performance of Windows. The tool showed that the partition was horribly fragmented (no surprise to me), so running the defrag was a good idea.
Then I ran the built-in Windows defrag tool. It worked fine for me, as described below, and for many others, based on the research I’ve done. So you need to ensure this is what you really want to do. After you convert from FAT32 to NTFS, you cannot convert back to FAT32 (not without loss of data). NOTE: The conversion is a one-way process. After booting back into Windows, the conversion was done in less than 5 minutes. I booted into Bootcamp (holding down the Option key when starting up my iMac), and ran the following command:Īnd selected the option to have it run the conversion at next startup. So, I updated a backup of my Windows My Documents folder, and got the nerve to do the conversion. Since both Parallels Desktop and the latest beta of VMware Fusion have tools that allow file sharing both ways (between Windows and OSX), there didn’t seem to me to be any downside to making the conversion. But, in reading up on this, I learned that many people with the same configuration had run into several problems when defragging their FAT32 Bootcamp partitions, including making their partitions unusable.įurther reading revealed that the way around this is to convert the Windows file system to NTFS. However, during the past month it seemed to me that Windows just kept getting slower, and I figured it was time to defragment the Bootcamp partition. I was not aware at the time of any disadvantage of FAT32, at least for my needs. The advantage of doing so was that it enabled OSX to access files on the Bootcamp partition.
When I first set up a Bootcamp partition on my iMac, about a year and a half ago, I set it up to use the FAT32 file system.
Since about a third of my regular readers use a Mac, I thought I would share my experiences in converting my iMac’s Bootcamp partition to an NTFS file system.
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