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Can anyone tell me how to change from ntfs back to fat 32, not
knowing what ntfs was when I upgraded from 98se I clicked it on during
setup, now half my drive is ntfs and half fat 32. Help please.
 
Teddi Bear said:
Can anyone tell me how to change from ntfs back to fat 32, not
knowing what ntfs was when I upgraded from 98se I clicked it on during
setup, now half my drive is ntfs and half fat 32. Help please.
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I suspect you have a disk with two partitions (=drives),
one of which is FAT32, then other NTFS. A partition
can be either FAT32 or NTFS but not both. To change
an NTFS partition back to FAT you would have to do this:
- Back up the whole NTFS partition
- Delete the NTFS partition
- Create a FAT32 partition
- Restore all your data.

This is a complex operation that requires another
Win2000/XP machine or a Bart PE boot CD.
I recommend that you stick with NTFS - it is after
all the native file system for Windows 2000.
 
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