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NTFS to FAT32
Name: Nate Date: October 13, 2002 at 14:35:35 Pacific OS: XP Profesional CPU/Ram: P4 1.4/ 384
Comment:
Is it possible to go from NTFS to FAT32? I have a scsi Hard drive that is NTFS and I want to change it to FAT32.
Name: HEAT! Date: October 13, 2002 at 16:41:55 Pacific
Reply:
why? don't do it....NTFS is much better and more stable....it is also more efficient at allocating your files. So don't change
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Response Number 2
Name: tru Date: October 14, 2002 at 07:29:30 Pacific
Reply:
Basically you can't do that.
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Response Number 3
Name: tru Date: October 14, 2002 at 07:30:12 Pacific
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Excepting to copy all your stuff to another drive and format that drive back to FAT32 and retransfer.
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Response Number 4
Name: badben Date: October 14, 2002 at 23:27:13 Pacific
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Just fdisk and format your drive using Win98se bootdisk from bootdisk.com if your drive is under 60 gb. fdisk- delete partition then create new partition then format c: from A>
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