Conversion Tool : from Shapefile To Feature Class

This little tutorial will walk you through how to convert a shapefile into a geodatabase feature class using ArcGIS. This will be broken into two larger parts:
Creating a geodatabase
Converting a shapefile into a feature class
By the end, you should be able to work with your layer as a feature class in a geodatabase.
Creating a geodatabase
When using a geodatabase it’s important to keep in mind that the geodatabase itself is just a container for data. While it has special functionality for spatial data, it serves the same purpose as any other file folder on your computer. In fact, if you look at a geodatabase outside of ArcCatalog or ArcMap it will just look like a folder on your computer.
The data that are stored in a geodatabase are called feature classes. These are similar to shapefiles. What you’ll really be doing through this process is converting a shapefile to a feature class that resides in a geodatabase. But before you can do that conversion, you need a place, a geodatabase, for your feature class to be stored. In short, you need to create a geodatabase: