NTFS and FAT

[John Culleton]

Is there a way under Windows 2000 to resize the main NTFS partition
and create a FAT partition for data sharing with other OS?

John Culleton

 

[Bill Crocker]

One easy method would be to use Partition Magic.

Bill Crocker

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Not with built-in Win2K-native tools, I'm afraid. You'll need to
look for a 3rd party solution. BootItNG (www.bootitng.com) is a
powerful yet economical choice.

Bruce Chambers
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[Peter Forster [MVP]]

Hello John Culleton!

Is there a way under Windows 2000 to resize the main NTFS partition
and create a FAT partition for data sharing with other OS?

AFAIK not out of the box.

Third party vendors for this:

Acronis with PartitionExpert
http://www.acronis.com/products/partitionexpert/

Symantec with Partition Magic
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

But i'm not sure if you can change the system volume from NTFS to FAT. For
access over network it has no effect if the HDD is NTFS or FAT. Only for
local access it is important. But there are also tools for that:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml (read only
access)

 

[John Culleton]

Hello John Culleton!



AFAIK not out of the box.

Third party vendors for this:

Acronis with PartitionExpert
http://www.acronis.com/products/partitionexpert/

Symantec with Partition Magic
http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

But i'm not sure if you can change the system volume from NTFS to FAT. For
access over network it has no effect if the HDD is NTFS or FAT. Only for
local access it is important. But there are also tools for that:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml (read only
access)

I found an easier solution. A 128MB USB Pen drive comes preformatted
with a FAT16 partition. That seems an easier way to run multiple OS,
some of which use NTFS and some of which cannot write to that
partition type.

Thanks,

John Culleton