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format hard drive from ntfs to fat 32
I have a new hard drive that I have partitioned,120gb,four
drives,g,h,i,j. some how I ended up with mtfs on the first drive(G) and the rest have fat 32. I would like to remove the ntfs and put fat 32 on G. could someone tell me how to do that. I would appreciate it very much, thanks guys |
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format hard drive from ntfs to fat 32
"mackenoly" wrote in message oups.com... I have a new hard drive that I have partitioned,120gb,four drives,g,h,i,j. some how I ended up with mtfs on the first drive(G) and the rest have fat 32. I would like to remove the ntfs and put fat 32 on G. could someone tell me how to do that. I would appreciate it very much, thanks guys You can probably do it from Computer Management under Administrative Tools in Control Panel. Is there some reason you need FAT32? Why not just use NTFS for all the partitions? Wayne |
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format hard drive from ntfs to fat 32
You will need to boot from a floppy of preferably Win 98 startup then
in DOS mode at prompt, run the command "Fdisk" and this will give you 4 options from that dos menu to re-configure your hard drive to either add/remove partitions that currently exist on your drive, the NTFS Partition will probobly be displayed as NON-FAT partition's under option 4 where you display hard drive info...for more help on this topic refer to a site that provides answers about partitioning, or download Partition Magic 8 or so...theres all kinds of help with this simply by searching for it on google, or ask.com |
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format hard drive from ntfs to fat 32
A person CAN upgrade a harddrive from FAT to NTSFS without uninstalling and
reinstalling the software on the harddrive. You CANNOT downgrade a harddrive from NTFS to FAT without first reformatting the harddrive. -- DaveW ---------------- "mackenoly" wrote in message oups.com... I have a new hard drive that I have partitioned,120gb,four drives,g,h,i,j. some how I ended up with mtfs on the first drive(G) and the rest have fat 32. I would like to remove the ntfs and put fat 32 on G. could someone tell me how to do that. I would appreciate it very much, thanks guys |
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