i am currently running winxp and i want to go back to winme. using the winxp disc, i tried the recovery console to reformat ntfs to fat32. but the disk is still ntfs after 100% completed. how do i change ntfs to fat32? my english is not so good so sorry. i am very new at this. thanks.

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If I understand you tried to format from a working operating system. You have to go to Dos and Fdisk and then format to fat32. There is no way to convert to fat32 from NTFS

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thanks for the replies. i tried partition magic but my drive is compressed and i don't know how to uncompress it. help!

Use Partion Magic or system commander form the boot disk...then is easy to convert and format in fat32 Only In DOS !

Don't make life complicated people. Boot to your XP CD-ROM, start the install as normal, when you get to the point where it ask what you want to do with the exsisting partitions, do your dirty work their. You will have the ability to FDISK then. Partiton Magic is a good program but it is not the cure all. Later, KTTD