Any freeware app to re-format an ntfs partion to fat32, form a bootable floppy?

[walterbyrd]

I am looking for a utility that I can put on a bootable floppy, then
after booting, I want to able to format an ntfs partition to fat32.

Is there anything like that?

Thanks.

 

[Arild Bjørk]

I am looking for a utility that I can put on a bootable floppy, then
after booting, I want to able to format an ntfs partition to fat32.

Is there anything like that?

Don't know if you're able to run it from command line on a floppy, but it'll
format disks to fat32:

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

 

[meow2222]

I am looking for a utility that I can put on a bootable floppy, then
after booting, I want to able to format an ntfs partition to fat32.

Is there anything like that?

Thanks.

win 98 startup floppy disc. Let ity boot then type fdisk. Delete
existing partitions then add new DOS partition. When done, format C:.

Ultimate Bootdisc should do it too.

NT

 

[walterbyrd]

I should have mentioned that there are some partitions I want to keep.
I also should have mentioned that I have the following partitions on my
120gb hdd: ntfs, ext3, linux swap, and fat32.

Win98 fdisk does not correctly see the partitions on my 120gb hdd. I
don't trust it to correctly delete one partition, and leave everything
else intact.

IMO: the dos version of fdisk is long-since obsolete. I vaugly remember
a product called ranish which worked fairly well.

Ultimate boot disk might be a good idea.

 

[Mark Blain]

I should have mentioned that there are some partitions I want to keep.
I also should have mentioned that I have the following partitions on my
120gb hdd: ntfs, ext3, linux swap, and fat32.

Win98 fdisk does not correctly see the partitions on my 120gb hdd. I
don't trust it to correctly delete one partition, and leave everything
else intact.

IMO: the dos version of fdisk is long-since obsolete. I vaugly remember
a product called ranish which worked fairly well.

Ultimate boot disk might be a good idea.

(Top post corrected. Do not top post.)

Since you mentioned linux:
"Tom's Root-Boot" floppy has command-line linux fdisk to change a
partition's type and mkdosfs to wipe out the contents and reformat it as
fat32. I rarely use Tom's myself any more; I use a bootable Linux CD or a
non-free partition tool instead.
http://www.toms.net/rb/

 

[Uncle Sam]

"walterbyrd" wrote:

(Top post corrected. Do not top post.)

(Unneccessary quoting corrected. Do not quote unneccessary text)

You are an arrogant prick.

If you don't want to top post then don't. If other do - then live
with it. There are no rules. Don't impose your preferences on
others.

 

[Al Klein]

There are no rules.

But there is a huge body of tradition.

 

[Mark Blain]

Uncle Sam wrote (in part):

If you don't want to top post then don't. If other do - then live
with it. There are no rules. Don't impose your preferences on
others.

It makes it difficult to follow a conversation if one followup's on the
bottom of the original message but the next one's on top, which is what had
happened.

 

[Peter Seiler]

Uncle Sam - 12.06.2006 01:11 :

(Unneccessary quoting corrected. Do not quote unneccessary text)

You are an arrogant prick.

If you don't want to top post then don't. If other do - then live
with it. There are no rules. Don't impose your preferences on
others.

a logical *bad* result would be:

"If you don't want unnecessary quoting then don't. If others do - then
live with it. There are no rules. Don't impose your preferences on others."

Therefore some kind of "rules" would be advantageous/necessary because
otherwise everybody acts for his own and all will grow very very confusing.

I personally prefer bottom posting because of normally reading from top
to bottom (books, newspapers etc.) and avoid/shorten unnecessary
fullquoting.

Others more than often are too lazy or usenet unexperienced or or and do
fullquoting 100 or more quoting lines only to say "thanks"!

An other terrible usenetbehavior is flooding, missionary, inconsiderate
OT-posting as we can observe these days by Jai Maharaj for example.

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Uncle Sam <> wrote in

If you don't want to top post then don't. If other do - then live
with it.

Better yet, encourage them to stop it.

There are no rules. Don't impose your preferences on
others.

It's not possible to impose something like that on anyone. All that
can be done is to point out what people shouldn't do; e.g., your post
didn't impose anything on anyone, just pointed out what kind of posts
you think folks shouldn't make.

 

[Kram]

No it doesn't

 

[Kram]

Don't bother, I prefer to top post.

Better yet, encourage them to stop it.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Uncle Sam <> wrote in
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It's not possible to impose something like that on anyone. All that
can be done is to point out what people shouldn't do; e.g., your post
didn't impose anything on anyone, just pointed out what kind of posts
you think folks shouldn't make.

My issue is not with top or bottom (or interleaved) posting - its with
the arrogance of someone who would actually change someone elses post
to fit their prefernces. That is "imposing" yourself.

I also have no issue with people who voice a concern about top or
bottom posting. That is OK ( but a bit pointless in my view - its
been done to death and like religion, you will rarely convert people
from the other camp), but no-one should think they have a right to
"correct" someone elses post. I did so - only to show how arrogant it
is.

 

[jmatt]

I should have mentioned that there are some partitions I want to keep.
I also should have mentioned that I have the following partitions on my
120gb hdd: ntfs, ext3, linux swap, and fat32.

Here are some to look at.

QTParted
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/

Partition Logic
http://visopsys.org/partlogic/

SwissKnife
http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm
http://www.compuapps.com/download/download.htm

Partition Saving - savepart.zip
http://www.partition-saving.com/
http://perso.club-internet.fr/guiboure/en/lisezmoi.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/guiboure/en/FAQ.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/guiboure/en/HOWTO.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/guiboure/en/partinfo.html

Ranish Partition Manager
http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/sys.htm

Fips
http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/

 

[Al Klein]

No it doesn't

Not if you're backward.

 

[Al Klein]

<plonk>

Of course you'll want to read it in the proper order, bottom to top.

Then accept my top post.

 

[Al Klein]

My issue is not with top or bottom (or interleaved) posting - its with
the arrogance of someone who would actually change someone elses post
to fit their prefernces. That is "imposing" yourself.

Or, looked at another way, it's making it easier for the responder to
read what he's responding to.

Those who are important, though, wouldn't care about that.

 

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Uncle Sam <> wrote in

My issue is not with top or bottom (or interleaved) posting - its
with the arrogance of someone who would actually change someone
elses post to fit their prefernces. That is "imposing" yourself.

But it's not possible to change someone else's post, except locally.
No matter what's done in followups, the OP remains as it was.

 

[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

This issue comes up often in most newsgroups. Top-posting
is definitely better in certain situations.

Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti

 

[Kris Baker]

This issue comes up often in most newsgroups. Top-posting
is definitely better in certain situations.

Jai Maharaj

Yes, it is. It identifies people I want to immediately KILLFILE.

Thank you.