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=== Windows === While the different NTFS versions are for the most part fully [[forward compatibility|forward]]- and [[backward compatibility|backward-compatible]], there are technical considerations for mounting newer NTFS volumes in older versions of Microsoft Windows. This affects dual-booting, and external portable hard drives. For example, attempting to use an NTFS partition with Windows' feature "Previous Versions" ([[Volume Shadow Copy]]) on an operating system that does not support it will result in the contents of those previous versions being lost.<ref name="techBlog2007">{{cite web |author=cfsbloggers |date=July 14, 2006 |title=How restore points and other recovery features in Windows Vista are affected when dual-booting with Windows XP |url=http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/07/14/441829.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718011852/http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/07/14/441829.aspx |archive-date=2006-07-18 |access-date=2007-03-21 |work=The Filing Cabinet}}</ref> A Windows command-line utility called [[convert (command)|convert.exe]] can convert supporting file systems to NTFS, including [[High Performance File System|HPFS]] (only on Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, and 3.51), [[File Allocation Table|FAT16]] and FAT32 (on Windows 2000 and later).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.karlstechnology.com/blog/convert-fat-disks-to-ntfs/ |title= How to Convert FAT Disks to NTFS |date= 18 December 2017 |website=Karl's Technology |access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eduhk.hk/ocio/content/faq-how-convert-fat32-file-system-ntfs-windows-xp |title=FAQ: How to use Convert.exe to convert a partition to the NTFS file system |access-date=2010-12-26 |date=2007-02-12 |website=The Educationsl University of Hong Kong |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206011046/https://www.eduhk.hk/ocio/content/faq-how-convert-fat32-file-system-ntfs-windows-xp |archive-date=2023-12-06 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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