Beating a Dead Horse: converting NTFS to APFS

[transmaster]

I have been using xFAT to enable my Mac and the PC to read the same files. The PC is only used for operating the Amateur Radio station, and I never accessed the Seagate drive with it. The 14 TiB external HD has a power supply problem and is in xFAT. It finally dawned on this eternal digital packrat: I no longer need the biggest HDs I can afford. It is getting replaced on the Mac Studio with a Samsung 4 TiB SSD; it will be formatted for APFS combined with the other Samsung 4 TiB SSB, and the Mac's internal 1 TiB will give me 9 TiB of storage, which will be plenty. Now, is there a Utility that I can use to convert NTFS to APFS? Searching the internet does not seem to give me much hope. If I have to, I will connect it to the PC and use this HD there.

 

[Fishrrman]

NTFS to APFS?
Sounds like "reformat time" to me.

 

[transmaster]

NTFS to APFS?
Sounds like "reformat time" to me.

Reformat means the loss of several TiB of media files. There is nothing wrong with the drive I will pull it out of its case, put it in my cloning case, and transfer its files to another SSD. HD's are just not what they once were. What has happened is these music and video files are now available on various streaming services and YouTube. I have also purchased more CDs than I have in years. Discogs has releases long out of print and not available on streaming services. My Last CD came from Denmark. So, these files are not nearly as important as they once were. I also have them backed up on five other HDs in storage.

 

[eas]

That's fine. There is still no practical way to convert NTFS to APFS. And by "practical" I mean a way that doesn't require expert knowledge of both filesystems + great programming proficiency + a lot of debugging.