Guest Henry Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. Henry
Guest Bill in Co. Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 Re: Format question I think you have to run FDISK first. You do realize if you do that, you will lose all your data though, right? Just curious - why are you doing this? Henry wrote: > How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? > Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. > > Henry
Guest Lee Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 Re: Format question On Dec 31 2007, 9:37 pm, Henry <wa0...@arrl.net> wrote: > How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? > Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. > > Henry Since NT installs a boot manager, it's best to use a hard drive wiper like Bart's Disktool utility to wipe the drive with. Wiping means to write all zeros to every sector which would erase the NT boot manager and clear the partition table at the same time. http://www.nu2.nu/utils/ Then you'll need to partition the drive using fdisk and then finally you'll need to format all the partitions you created using fdisk. Really too much to even ask for lessons from a news group. Use the internet to do your learning from. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.bale4/formatinstall.htm http://freepctech.com/guides.shtml http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/ http://cquirke.mvps.org/reinst.htm http://www.windowsreinstall.com/articles/waystoreinstall/ http://www.windowsreinstall.com/indexwin98.htm http://www.pcguide.com/topicnf.html
Guest philo Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 Re: Format question "Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message news:0qmdnUYWtqv3XuTanZ2dnUVZ_smnnZ2d@comcast.com... > How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? > Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. > > Henry You'd need to run fdisk and delete the drive... then recreate. NOTE: all data on the drive will be lost. If you have data on the drive you will need to back it up first. Also: you could use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic
Guest Tim Slattery Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 Re: Format question "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote: > >"Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message >news:0qmdnUYWtqv3XuTanZ2dnUVZ_smnnZ2d@comcast.com... >> How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? >> Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. >> >> Henry > > >You'd need to run fdisk and delete the drive... >then recreate. You'd delete the NTFS partition, and use the space to create a FAT32 partition. If there are other partitions on the disk, you can leave them alone. >NOTE: all data on the drive will be lost. All data on the deleted drive will be lost. >If you have data on the drive you will need to back it up first. Absolutely! >Also: you could use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic Yes, Partition Magic, BootIt NG or other partition manager type programs should be able to convert the partition without losing data. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(Shell/User) Slattery_T@bls.gov http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
Guest Franc Zabkar Posted January 1, 2008 Posted January 1, 2008 Re: Format question On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:37:00 -0600, Henry <wa0goz@arrl.net> put finger to keyboard and composed: >How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? >Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. > >Henry In addition to what has already been said, if you wish to make your drive bootable on a Win98 system, then type ... fdisk /mbr .... to replace the boot code in the master boot record. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
Guest PCR Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 Re: Format question Henry wrote: | How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please? | Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions. I think the others have answered this well enough, but best get the latest FDISK first... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044 Latest FDISK It looks like this... FDISK EXE 64,460 05-18-00 8:35a FDISK.EXE Replace the one on your Startup Diskette, if it is different from that. Get a Startup Diskette from... http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette in & turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is, "DIR X:", where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. The Startup Diskette will say which letter is the CD during boot. (Note: It may be necessary to enter BIOS Setup & set it to boot the floppy drive above the hard drive.) Careful you don't delete the wrong partition, if you have more than one! | Henry -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, Should things get worse after this, PCR pcrrcp@netzero.net
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