Re: NTFS to FAT32 for a partitioned HD

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From: Donald McDaniel (orthocrossAT_at_cablespeedDOTcom.invalid)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 05:24:45 -0700

PipSqueak wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just bought an external HD (those USB external case ones), hoping
> that I can easily transfer my files among 3 of my home pcs only to
> find out that my desktop which runs win98 doesn't support NTFS.
>
> Can I partition my HD to make it 1 drive NTFS and the other FAT32? Do
> I need to reformat my entire HD to do that? I have about 6ogb of files
> in my external HD and want to retain them if possible when
> partitioning.

I don't necessarily advise it, but I did use Partition Magic 8 to convert an
NTFS partition into a FAT32 partition with no apparent problems. However,
the best way to get FAT32 partitions out of an NTFS partition is to
repartition the NTFS partition(s) using Microsoft-supplied tools. This will
require the destructive partitioning and formatting of the NTFS
partition(s), creating one or more new FAT32 partition(s) from the free
space which will result from deleting the NTFS partition(s).

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