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I have 98 loaded in C and installed XP Home SP1 on H:. I wanna
familiarize myself with it before I switch.
XP set up a dual boot. Everything worked great.
Then I discovered I still have all my drives as FAT. So I used the
disk converter in Win98 to convert all drives to FAT32. All went
smoothly until it tried to convert the XP partition (H: drive), even
though I did not reformat that partition when I loaded XP. (IOW, it's
still FAT16.) I know XP likes FAT32 (and NTFS better).
Any reason why the Disk Converter wouldn't work?
When it went into DOS for the reboot, it froze at the C prompt rather
than continuing through to the [DOS] screen where it checks off the
tasks it's performing. I don't mind trying again if it was just a
glitch. Yes I know it's not that important since I will eventually
install it in NTFS, but if anyone knows, I'd like an answer.
PS (I knew I'd lose dual boot by converting but I can restore that.)
Thanks!
(PS I already know about Partition Magic.)
familiarize myself with it before I switch.
XP set up a dual boot. Everything worked great.
Then I discovered I still have all my drives as FAT. So I used the
disk converter in Win98 to convert all drives to FAT32. All went
smoothly until it tried to convert the XP partition (H: drive), even
though I did not reformat that partition when I loaded XP. (IOW, it's
still FAT16.) I know XP likes FAT32 (and NTFS better).
Any reason why the Disk Converter wouldn't work?
When it went into DOS for the reboot, it froze at the C prompt rather
than continuing through to the [DOS] screen where it checks off the
tasks it's performing. I don't mind trying again if it was just a
glitch. Yes I know it's not that important since I will eventually
install it in NTFS, but if anyone knows, I'd like an answer.
PS (I knew I'd lose dual boot by converting but I can restore that.)
Thanks!
(PS I already know about Partition Magic.)