Dear all, I have installed win xp to my new pc. win xp formated my hard disk in NTFS mode. now I want to format the hard disk in Fat32 mode. I inserted the reboot disk and tried to format the hard disk but could not formated. my question how to format hard disk in Fat32 mode or is there any option in winxp that can change the hard disk from NTFS to FAT. Thanks Martin

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Nothing in XP to convert back. ------------------- How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;255867& ------------------- Simplified version of the above: How to Format: Use a 95 or 98 start up disk Boot to A: Fdisk Delete Partition or logical drive Delete primary DOS partition if fat16 or fat32 Delete Non DOS if NTFS Next Create DOS partition Create primary DOS partition Do you wish to use max size?_______Y Reboot to A: format C: You have FAT32 If you want NTFS you can convert later.

Dear Chuck and all, Thanks for the help. I tried to delete the partition using win98 start up disk but could not delete the partition, it said logical drive not exist. the problem is I partitioned the hard disk using Fdisk and then formated using win xp. thanks

how'd ya do that????????

I just reboot the computer using win98 start up disk, then partioned the hard disk using fdisk, then rebooted the computer from winxp cd. I chosed the option that let winxp format the hard disk in NTFS mode. now do not know what to do to reformating the hard disk. thanks

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