Re: Need to convert 'H' drive from NTFS to fat32

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Michael:
Would it be possible for you to post these directions?
Anna


"Michael D. Alligood" <mdalligood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kerry, I have performed this task numerous of times and have performed it
on the laptop that I am currently using now to type my rebuttal. I can
send you the directions if you like.

Michael D. Alligood

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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Michael D. Alligood wrote:
I agree with Kerry. You need to talk to the company/person how did
this. Normally when a motherboard "gets fried", unless you install
the exact motherboard you will more than likely have to reinstall
windows. It sounds like that maybe a parallel installation may have
been installed (i.e. another copy of Windows installed on the drive,
on another partition (drive h:\) This could explain you lack of drive
space.
When you boot up the PC, is there a selection screen for you to chose
which operating system to boot up in? Not that it matter, because
he/she could have also changed the boot.ini file to hide this.

There is a utility called Diskpart that one can use to revert an NTFS
volume back to a FAT32 volume without data destruction or
repartitioning. However, I HIGHLY DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU DOING THIS. It
should be done by someone with familiarity of this utility, not by an
end user.


Diskpart cannot be used to non-destructively convert NTFS to FAT32. There
are 3rd party apps that do it but nothing built in to Windows.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



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