Converting NTFS to FAT32

[eric-marques-net 0]

Last time I installed W2K I converted my drive to NTFS and then installed PC Anywhere 9.0 and W2K refused to start even in safe mode

I booted with a win98 boot disk and I could not access my NTFS drive and had to re partition loosing everything

 

What I want to ask is if there is any program that can convert an NTFS drive to FAT32 in MS DOS mode that I can copy onto a CD just in case

 

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Eric Marques

mail@ericmarques.net

[YuppieScum 0]

There is a tool that will allow Win9x to read NTFS partitions (search will find it) but there is no tool to convert NTFS to FAT (12 16 or 32)

 

 

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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM

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Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)

SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)

Win2K build 2195 Retail (not 120-day eval)

[DocSilly 0]

No, FAT32 -> NTFS is a oneway road ... but there are programs that'll allow you to read (free) or read/write (not free) on NTFS, available for DOS or Win9x.

[Ekstreme 0]

You MUST run live update before rebooting after isntalling pcanywhere 9. otherwise, you get what happened to you http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/pca.nsf/pfdocs/1999070115565012

all the info is there

[ewaite 0]

DocSilly

 

You can convert NTFS back to FAT32 with Partition Magic 5. You just have to use the boot disks that it makes. And remember to defrag the hard drive first or it will take a really long time.

[A-guy 0]

Pq5 mangled my drive when converting ntfs to fat32. Be careful.

[A-guy 0]

ooops meant pm5