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Formatting NTFS to Fat32

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Name: mikey_s2003
Date: September 5, 2003 at 00:09:22 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: Athlon 1GIG 640MB Ram
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Is it possible to do it, and if so how??

This is for my girlfriend's mother's computer, because the other person doing it sadly died

Thanks for help



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Name: Mark
Date: September 5, 2003 at 00:12:02 Pacific
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I'm afraid there's no conventional way of converting NTFS back to FAT32. However a third party program such as Partition Magic may be able to help.


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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr
Date: September 5, 2003 at 03:13:00 Pacific
Reply:

System Commander is another similar util.


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: September 5, 2003 at 09:02:06 Pacific
Reply:

Do you wanna convert or format?

If you don't have the diagnostic disk for your hard drive, go to the manufacturer's website & download their software...for instance, Western Digital's program is called Data Lifeguard...with it, you can partition, format, check drive for errors, etc:

http://support.wdc.com/download/

Maxtor's software is called PowerMax:

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Seagate's is called SeaTools:

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html


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Response Number 4
Name: andy
Date: September 5, 2003 at 10:26:49 Pacific
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what operating system are u using if it is xp or newer versons of nt i sujest you should use ntfs nuless you need two use fat 32 for some other reason like you are using a dual boot with say 98 then you should use it cos win 98 me and 95 canot use ntfs post back tho so you can get more help if needed


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