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Installing 98 after Winxp Install
Name: Grant Date: August 11, 2003 at 15:57:14 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4 2.8 800fsb 1GB Ram
Comment:
Hi I have winxp loaded on my machine and want win98 as a second operating sytem using VMWARE and I have my 120gb drive partioned to (3) 40gb drives and without loosing any data how would I change a partion from ntfs to fat32?
Name: gabep Date: August 11, 2003 at 16:05:10 Pacific
Reply:
The easiest way is Partition Magic 8.0. Don't use 7.0 as XP doesn't like it. Rgds.
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Response Number 2
Name: Davy H Date: August 11, 2003 at 16:05:11 Pacific
Reply:
Boot into XP and use computer management to reformat the partiton you want to FAT32, after you have copied over any data you want to keep.
However, if you've set the drive up as a dynamic disk then your going to have to reformat the whole drive and re-install windows as you cannot convert a dynamic volume back to FAT, sorry.
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