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Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:25 pm
by Jacques
After you convert a partition to NTFS, you cannot convert it back.
Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:35 pm
by Lizard
you can if you re-format it .
Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:41 pm
by 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.
Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:44 pm
by Lizard
Sorry J, I was assuming he had backed up or could down load anything valuable first, then RF it.
Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:45 pm
by 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.
Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:47 pm
by 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.
Re: Fats32, from Ntls as I cocked up
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:56 pm
by 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)?