use 98 disk converter on XP partition?

[linn]

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.)

 

[Xlnt]

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?

Did it give any error messages?

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.)

Do you also know about the convert utility in Windows XP? Try that one.

Xlnt

 

[linn]

Did it give any error messages?

Nope. Just hung at the prompt, cursor flashing with no sound of
spinning of the hard drive. I waited awhile then hit ctl+atl+del and
it rebooted fine.

Do you also know about the convert utility in Windows XP? Try that one.

Yeah, but I lost the dual boot thing and was on a roll in 98
converting them all, so it was more convenient to do it then. But I'm
about to restore the boot files so I'll try that, thanks.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Yeah, but I lost the dual boot thing and was on a roll in 98
converting them all, so it was more convenient to do it then. But I'm
about to restore the boot files so I'll try that, thanks.

The one in XP is for converting to NTFS. Before using it read
www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm If you have Partition Magic ver 8 you
can use that also for the needed alignment, but the suggested one,
BootIT NG is cheaper if you have neither.

I'm surprised you got XP onto a FAT 16 partition at all. To do so may
have involved making an oversized one, using 64K clusters, which Win98
does not recognise (but which can be made in NT)