Converting NFTS to FAT32

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Jeff Clark

I have installed a second hard drive (F) which is NFTS
format. I want to use Norton Ghost 2003 to save a copy of
my C drive. It will not write to F as it is NFTS. How can
I convert the F drive only, to FAT32
 
Go to Administrative tools in Control Pannel and double
click on the Computer Management icon. Double click
Storage and them double click on the Disk Managenet
(local) applet. Right click the drive you want to reformat
and chosse format. From the File System list choose FAT32.
 
Right click on "My Computer" and click on "Manage", in
the left window, click on "Disk Management", right click
on the partion\drive and click "Format", in the drop down
menu select "Fat32" instead of "NTFS". Also select "Quick
Format" if your in a hurry. Formating the partion will
destroy all data!!!, Backup if nessecary. Also you can
use "FDisk" command (Win98 boot disk, boot the computer
with it) to delete primary partion and recreate primary
partion. Reboot with the boot disk and type: format X:\
(X=drive letter)
 
Alex said:
Go to Administrative tools in Control Pannel and double
click on the Computer Management icon. Double click
Storage and them double click on the Disk Managenet
(local) applet. Right click the drive you want to reformat
and chosse format. From the File System list choose FAT32.
Click to expand...

Note that this will not be possible if the partition is bigger than
32GB. That would have to be formatted with some non-XP tool - eg a
Win98 start up floppy, first using FDISK to delete the 'Non-DOS'
partition then making a new DOS Primary one and rebooting to format the
drive letter assigned to it in DOS (which will not necessarily be the
one XP will use)
 
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