Jedi Outcast

Could someone please tell me how I can convert an 80gig hard-drive to FAT32 from NTFS, without formatting it. I have tried partition magic, but it won't allow me to convert a hard drive of that size. You help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Likewise... I don't want to start a cyberwar over this, but I have used partition magic 7 to convert from NTFS to FAT32 without any loss of data, on my 13 and 20gig hdd's. But as I said, it will not allow me to do this with the 80gig. I have read somewhere (I forget where) that it PM doesn't actually convert the file system, just writes a new header to the disk which tricks it into thinking that there has been a conversion. I don't know how true this is though, and if it is true, I don't see why it wouldn't work with the 80gig drive either.

Unfortuantly the hard disk is almost full, so the partition splitting isn't much of an option. Thanks for the suggestions anyway. I really appreciate it. What I find amazing is that microsoft can provide a utility which can convert FAT32 to NTFS, yet can't provide one which does the reverse?

Great... I am able to convert my 13 and 20 gig drives from NTFS to FAT32 using partition magic, but it won't allow me to do this with the 80 gig drive. NTFS may be a lot better, but it appears to be a lot slower (it is noticable), that's the main reason why I want to convert back to FAT32, and yes, I am running linux and W2K, and no I'm not running 98 or ME.

Yes, as amazing as it may sound... I have filled up 80gig of space. I do a lot of 3D work... and with some texture files taking up as much as 20mb of space, an 80gig HDD doesn't seem as large as you once thought it could be. Yeah I know, I use ghost on my primary HDD.

I'd love to do that, but I don't have any place to store an 80gig ghost file. Thanks anyway.