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Is Partition Magic the only way to convert NTFS back to FAT32?

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Old 24 April 2003, 10:54 AM
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It's on a PII 350 for my brother's grand-daughter and I can't leave XP on there (licence and speed issues) so I thought I'd put 98 or Me on it. Forgot I let XP convert it to NTFS, and don't have a copy og PM.

Any other ideas out there?

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Use FDISK to remove the NTFS partition and recreate a FAT32 one.

Will lose everything on the HD though so be carefull.
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Hi Chris,

I don't have a problem losing the information on the drive, I want to convert it fully to FAT32 so that I can install 98 or Me. Problem is the windows boot disk can't see the C drive, so I'm just about to try the repair console from the XP disk.

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All solved. repair console gives you the option of how you want to format, FAT, FAT32 or NTFS.

Now installing Me
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