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11-19-2004, 02:36 PM
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corvert h/drive from ntfs to fat32
hi all
could someone please help me out a little Im trying to format a hard drive with a win98 system disk, but because its a ntfs file sysem it will not let me do it. anyone know how i can get round this problem. i need the pc up and running by the morning for relatives business. Any help would be more than a appreciated. |
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11-19-2004, 02:38 PM
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wipe out the partition with fdisk (or partition magic or something like it) and re-partition then it will reformat it.
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11-19-2004, 03:16 PM
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fdisk will wipe it clean, partition magic will do it without loseing any data that is on it.
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11-19-2004, 05:09 PM
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If you know the make of the hard drive you could download the manufacturers diagnostic tools and run a lowlevel format which will zero fill the hard drive.
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11-19-2004, 09:01 PM
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use the win98 boot disk and use Fdisk. In Fdisk the NTFS partition will be shown as a non-dos partition. Destroy it, create a new one using FAT32, set it active, and format.
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