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I've heard alot of people ask this so many times, but as far as I know its only a one way convertion.I havent heard of any tools that are able to do this either.Try looking for something on Astalavista.com , but I seriously doubt it.
Partition Magic version 5 is said to include this option; otherwise you are into a copy from NTFS to FAT16 areas, then reformat the NTFS area back to FAT16 (with an awareness of the 2Gig limit per FAT16 partition...).
http://www.powerquest.com should tell you more on PM5
LM-S
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Response Number 4
Name: john westerman Date: May 15, 2000 at 08:55:48 Pacific
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NT doesn't support this, as NTFS is vastly superior to FAT. Fat has a limit of 4Gb under NT and NTFS 16Eb (Exa Bytes)
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Response Number 5
Name: Daniel Regalado Date: May 21, 2000 at 15:25:46 Pacific
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when you have a FAT partition, you can change to a NTFS partition, but if you have a NTFS then the only way to get a FAT partition back is reinstalling NT. Because NTFS can see FAT but FAT can not see NTFS partition. Thats why when you have a Dual BOOt between windos 9x an NT OS, you have to use FAT partition.
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