Re: Help - How to convert an NTFS drive to FAT16 drive

"Is there any easy to convert an NTFS drive to FAT16 or FAT32 drive?"

Nope. You'll need to purchase special software, likePartition Magic, or do a clean install.

NTFS offers several important advantages over FAT32 for Windows XP. Windows XP won't run on FAT16.

Ted Zieglar


"Orville Noah" <O_Noah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uwuVPCN6FHA.3276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is there any easy to convert an NTFS drive to FAT16 or
> FAT32 drive?
> Size of the drive is less than 60Gig. I have removed the
> drive from a PC that did use this drive as a D: drive where
> WinXP Pro is active on C: drive, and this second drive
> was a backup drive. I need to transfer this NTFS drive to
> another PC that has Win98SE loaded on C: drive. I am
> sure I won't be able to read/write to this NTFS drive
> under Win98SE. Any help will be highly appreciated.
>
>
.

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