Guest mini_pony@whinney.com Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 I got Win2k installed on a computer I bought and it's licensed to me. However I did not get an install disk. I initially did not want to use 2K and I plugged in my harddrive with Windows98se installed on it. Ever since I have been swapping hard drives. I want to set up my system as a dual boot for Win98 and Win2K. But I want ALL drives to be accessible from Dos. Therefore I want to change the 2K drive to Fat32. I have Partition Magic which will make the change, but will doing this cause problems with Win2k working? Its currently set to NTFS. I dont have the install CD so I cant risk it. Howver, before I do it, I intend to use Partition Magic to clone the whole drive to another spare drive.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Re: Can I change drive to Fat32? <mini_pony@whinney.com> wrote in message news:8r5hn3pv6nhq7mgig0oc8l7c7c30741ds8@4ax.com... >I got Win2k installed on a computer I bought and it's licensed to me. > However I did not get an install disk. I initially did not want to > use 2K and I plugged in my harddrive with Windows98se installed on it. > Ever since I have been swapping hard drives. I want to set up my > system as a dual boot for Win98 and Win2K. But I want ALL drives to > be accessible from Dos. Therefore I want to change the 2K drive to > Fat32. I have Partition Magic which will make the change, but will > doing this cause problems with Win2k working? Its currently set to > NTFS. I dont have the install CD so I cant risk it. Howver, before I > do it, I intend to use Partition Magic to clone the whole drive to > another spare drive. Win2000 will work happily with FAT32.
Guest George Hester Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 Re: Can I change drive to Fat32? No using Partition Magic to go back to FAT32 will work just fine. Windows 2000 will be a little confused when you fire it up because it will lose its ability to secure the files and folders but a confused op sys is better than a broken one. And no it won't be broke. Just confused. But will still work. -- George Hester _________________________________ <mini_pony@whinney.com> wrote in message news:8r5hn3pv6nhq7mgig0oc8l7c7c30741ds8@4ax.com... > I got Win2k installed on a computer I bought and it's licensed to me. > However I did not get an install disk. I initially did not want to > use 2K and I plugged in my harddrive with Windows98se installed on it. > Ever since I have been swapping hard drives. I want to set up my > system as a dual boot for Win98 and Win2K. But I want ALL drives to > be accessible from Dos. Therefore I want to change the 2K drive to > Fat32. I have Partition Magic which will make the change, but will > doing this cause problems with Win2k working? Its currently set to > NTFS. I dont have the install CD so I cant risk it. Howver, before I > do it, I intend to use Partition Magic to clone the whole drive to > another spare drive.
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