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You can convert back to FAT but not without losing all your information. You use Partition Magic to delete the partition and then reformat it in FAT.
Converting from FAT to NTFS is always a one-way process. Once a partition is NTFS you can't go back without losing all your data. If the information is important then back it up before using PQ Magic.
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Cleo,
You are misinformed - Partition Magic allows you to convert freely between FAT, FAT32, and NTFS in any direction without losing data.
What you will lose when converting from NTFS to FAT is any security information that is inherent to NTFS but not supported ion FAT. Also watch out for partition size limits with FAT partitions.
Prang!
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I am positive you can do it with partition magic as I have done it with no data loss.
I do reccomend backing up however because.. you just never know.
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I think it's PM6x and later that allows fat32 - ntfs either way; PM5 and earlier was a one way fat32>>ntfs only?
Also check out System Commander at:
http://www.v-com.com/product/sc2_ind.html
Seems latest version allows either way conversions.
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Okay, but what if I don't care abou the data?
It was NT, I formatted it, loaded 98, thus, still NTFS and 98 won't run, duh.
Now what do I do?
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when i try to convert my NTFS to Fat32 i get an error saying that i have sparse fiels or reparse files or encrypted files and that i cannot convert.. any 1 knwo a way for me to do it?
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Damn.. i also have prob with ntfs. I want to uninstall winXP, but it seems that it can't be formatted. Although i tried to boot from Win95/98 start-up disk, Fat cant see the ntfs disk. The result is that it CANT completely see my hard-disk. Does anyone has an idea about this? ..thanks :)
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hi
just thought i would let you know that you have to fdisk your hard drive and delete all none fat partition's and re-create them as fat format them and you are back up and running.
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well if you dont care about the data, and you booted the computer from a win98 boot disk, one way you're able to gain access to your hardrive again is by running FDISK(that is done by typing fdisk at the DOS prompt), delete all partitions on the Hardrive, then create primary-dos partition, format it and reboot again, you'll be all set :), happy fdisking and formatting. if you got any questions, email me.
Reezy.
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Partition Magic is probably your best bet. NTFS allows you to encrypt files on the hard drive so that they can only be used by you. The FATs don't have this feature (or NTFS's compression feature) so it can't read the files to be able to convert them, which is why you might have problems. If you have no encrypted or compressed files though it shouldn't be an issue and will work fine. But still make a backup, PM is notorious for losing data (I've lost several hard drives to PM3, don't know if 6 is better in that department or not).
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I have partition magic 7.x... How do I do for converting back from NTFS to FAT?
It takes just too much goddamned memory!!!
Help!!!
Give me exact instructions please...
Thanks
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Hi
I have just finished at succesful NTFS -> FAT32 on a W2K machine using PM 7.0
Make the 2 boot disks in PM 7.0 and boot on them, then find your drive at right click on it, at the bottom at the menu you will find the option convert. Under here are the different conversion options you have.
Good Luck
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Is there any other software or Utility which convert NTFS to FAT or FAT32
If anyone knows please inform me.
I have tried Partation magic 6.0 but not succeded
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In response to #11.Fdisk will not allow you to delete non-FAT partitions. (i.e. NTFS). You will have to use DELPART.exe and put it on your boot disk (I found delpart on the internet).That will wipe out your non-FAT partitions. Then you can create a FAT partition.
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