Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up

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dean1234
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Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up

Post by dean1234 »

you could try this found it on a forum

A radical way to do it but you can reformat a partition within Windows XP or 2000 from NTFS back to FAT32 by doing the following:
Go to your Administrative Tools -> Computer Management applet.
Go to the "Disk Management" tool.
Find the partition you want to reformat as FAT32 and DELETE IT.
Create a new partition of the same type (primary or extended) of the same size.
When creating the partition, it will ask you what format you want for it - choose FAT32.
That's it - you're done. No reboot needed.

To do this in a non-destructive manner in native Windows you are out of luck. I would suggest getting your hands on a copy of Partition Magic & keep it available at all times in a DOS-bootable form. It has a facility for non-destructively converting the partition format from NTFS to FAT32
dean1234
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Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up

Post by dean1234 »

info was of a proper tech help board .

there two ways in my last post for doing it

including using a copy of partion magic as It has a facility for non-destructively converting the partition format from NTFS to FAT32

no that is correct
Jacques
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Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up

Post by Jacques »

There is a reason why Partition Magic is often referred to as 'Partition Tragic'.

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Cenobitez
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Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up

Post by Cenobitez »

take it back to the shop and say you don't know what happened :P

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