Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up

[Jacques]

After you convert a partition to NTFS, you cannot convert it back.

[Lizard]

you can if you re-format it .

[Jacques]

Yes you're right but you lose all data - in XP go into My Computer, right click on the desired drive, choose Format, in the window that pops up select FAT32 in the drop down, choose Quick Format and simply click Start.

[Lizard]

Sorry J, I was assuming he had backed up or could down load anything valuable first, then RF it.

[Jacques]

And this my fail towards the end if the drive is more than 32Gb.

Also if this is not an option, open a command prompt and type:

format drive_letter: /FS:FAT32

Or ask someone who has a Mac to format it for you.

[Cenobitez]

You could old school and do a low level ?

http://www.killdisk.com/?gclid=CP_-gK7s ... EAod8XKQKQ

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

or ClearHDD is always in my tool box, made by samsun g but not got a link for it.

[Sam Slater]

Can't you set the hdd as a primary through the bios and use fdisk to delete the formatted partition (either with a boot disk or XP disk)?