Re: convert ntfs to fat 32?
From: Barry Watzman (WatzmanNOSPAM_at_neo.rr.com)
Date: 04/07/04
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:00:27 -0400 To: Machine Messiah <Dustyguyz@waifisktiddlewk.com>
You need to consider that machine "toast" as a working system, and every
part in it as "suspect", including the cpu, motherboard, memory, hard
drive and power supply. What you have now is a hardware problem, not a
software problem. However, once you find out what's good and replace
what's bad, you need to just "blow away" the hard drive and start over
-- completely.
XP is a better OS than 98, but if you are more comfortable with 98, you
could install either 98 or both 98 and XP in a dual boot configuration.
To do this, I'd recommend:
Install 98 on C:, FAT32, probably an 8 gig partition
Install XP on D:, FAT32, probably about a 12 gig partition
Use the rest of the drive as an E: partition for data (common to both 98
and XP), FAT32
I'd advise against creating FAT32 partitions larger than 16 gigs
XP is not tied to NTFS and can be installed on and will recognize FAT32
partitions. However, 98 works only with FAT and FAT32 partitions, and
won't even see NTFS partitions at all.
Machine Messiah wrote:
> We've got an Xp machine that seems fried. BSOD at boot, convert to prior
> configuration doesn't work. Pc was a hand-me-down and came without an XP
> cd of any sort (doubt they realize they were supposed to hang onto that).
> We have a lot more experience with Win98SE and tried to install that.
> That's no go either because the machine insists it only has a 54 mb hd
> (it's 30 gigs). Is there anyway to tell what if this machine was using
> fat 32 or ntfs? Is there a freeware tool that will partition the drive to
> fat 32?
> I think this machine has more problems than the os won't start. The
> motherboard fan disintigrated when we blew the dirt and cobwebs out with
> compressed air (we replaced the fan already). We tried putting in a hd
> with a working os (98se) but the drive wasn't recognized.
> Any ideas?
> TIA.
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