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How do you format an NTFS drive to make it a FAT 32 drive please?

Unfortunately, I need step by step instructions.

 

Henry

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Guest Bill in Co.
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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

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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

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"Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message

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> 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
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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.

 

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Guest Franc Zabkar
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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

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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

 

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