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NTFS Partition and Files to FAT32
Name: acommonjo Date: January 14, 2004 at 11:31:26 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 2.6/512
Comment:
Hello,
I would like to make a new partition for all of my documents and files to share between WinXP and RedHat Linux. I have heard that this is possible through a FAT32 Partition, but currentlly all of my files are on a NTFS partition. Is it possible to make the FAT32 partition and simply copy over the files from the current NTFS without damaging/losing the files? Thank you for your help.
Name: Sabertooth Date: January 14, 2004 at 12:53:04 Pacific
Reply:
It can be tricky but it is very much doable.
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Response Number 2
Name: baz6359 Date: January 14, 2004 at 14:02:24 Pacific
Reply:
Files copied across should be ok, its the partion not the files that are NTFS.
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Response Number 3
Name: Scorpian King Date: January 16, 2004 at 12:39:01 Pacific
Reply:
It is certainly possible to copy files from an NTFS formatted partition to a Fat32 partition but you need a free partition - and you can't resize existing partitions with FDISK etc.
It is possible to resize or convert an existing partition from/to NTFS/FAT32 using Partition Magic 8 but once you've installed it you're stuck with it - FDISK won't work after you've installed it and it's a nightmare to try and re-install Windows if you clean format the entire HDD in the future.
Summary: Matt this is excellent, I actually thought that there was absolutely no way to go back to ntfs if you converted to fat32 from ntfs. I dont mind reformatting. Its just that my ME partition is missing f...
Summary: The file system is of no consequence at all. Copying from a FAT32 to an NTFS drive and back to FAT32 is perfectly normal. The data changes not one jot. Copying from one file system to another is no ...
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