Re: Returning drive to fat32 from NTFS

GTT wrote: 
I bought a second hard drive for my machine and a friend installed it.
He formated it on his machine first. I notice it is NTFS while my
other drive and partiotions on it are Fat32. I would leave it as NTFS
but I still have dual boot with win 98.

Nothing is on this drive yet. What do I do under XP to format it as
Fat32. Detailed steps please or is it as simple as typing format E: How do I designate Fat32 or will it ask me. I have Partitionmagic but
it doesn't have any instructions on going from NTFS to fat32 just the
other way..

Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage. In the right-hand pane, click on Storage, then Disk Management(local). Right-click on the drive and choose "Format".
HTH


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