Re: NTFS to FAT32?

adman9000 wrote:
> Hi guys I wonder if anyone could help me out here. Basically, I got a
> new PC about a week ago which came preloaded with XP. After messing
> around with it a bit too much, the whole system basically became
> unusable so as it was pretty new, I thought I would format the hard
> drive and start over, as it came with a bunch of software I didn't
> really want anyway. However, I didn't realize I wasn't sent out the
> XP CD, and after speaking to the guys I bought the PC off of, they
> said they'll send it down in a couple of weeks. I have a Win98 CD
> still, so thought I would re-install that first and use that for a
> while until my XP CD came, but after formatting the system, when I
> tried to run the Win98 intsallation through DOS, it said that becuse
> my hard drive was partitioned in NTFS, it couldnt do the install - it
> needs to be changed into the FAT32 format. I tried to use the fdisk
> utility on my 98 boot disk, but this just freezes up every time I try
> and either delete or activate a partition. Does anyone know how to
> change my hard drive partition from NTFS to FAT32 using either the 98
> boot disk or CD, or am I stuck with no PC until the CD is sent down?
> :mad:

Re-partition.
Get a boot disk from www.bootdisk.com and use FDISK to erase old partitions
and create new ones.

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