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fat32 to fat16
Name: john lenghart Date: April 19, 2001 at 14:00:31 Pacific
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Hi to all, I have a question;if I convert a primary partition(ex: C:\) to fat16 from fat32, it posibil to damage or lose logical partition(D:\, E:\..)?
Name: ??? Date: April 19, 2001 at 14:36:49 Pacific
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No, but why in the world would you want to do that?????
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Response Number 2
Name: john lenghart Date: April 19, 2001 at 14:51:30 Pacific
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Because, when I want to install the WindowsNT, setup did not find any partition on my Harddrive.(Curent operating system is Win98se)
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Response Number 3
Name: ??? Date: April 19, 2001 at 15:06:01 Pacific
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I can't understand how switching to fat16 is gonna fix that. But good luck anyway.
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Response Number 4
Name: Bob Date: April 19, 2001 at 15:16:58 Pacific
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WEll ??? NT4 doesn't see FAT32. It can only see FAT16 and NTFS patitions.
John, get Partition Magic and you can convert your FAT32 partitions to FAT16. Just remember that FAT16 partitions can only be 2 gigs max size so you might want to resize your FAT32 down a little and add another partition and make that the FAT16
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Response Number 5
Name: john lenghart Date: April 19, 2001 at 15:57:26 Pacific
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Thank you everybody, for answers and advice.
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Response Number 6
Name: guyen Date: April 19, 2001 at 17:02:06 Pacific
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same situation happened me too, I use partition magic to make undestroyable conversion from fat32--> fat16. THat's the only program that I know of so far.
Summary: Hi, I used Laplink 4 to transfer files from a win98 FAT32 to a win95 FAT16. All the files transferred, but now the win95 machine does not boot up correctly (can't find mouse etc.) It worked fine befor...
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