Fat 32 conversion problems

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JEFF - 06 Nov 2003 19:05 GMT

My daughter accidently converted my A drive to FAT 32. Now
when I install a disk it will prompt me to format. Even
when I try to format the disk it will not work.
Any help out there?

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philo - 06 Nov 2003 20:40 GMT

> My daughter accidently converted my A drive to FAT 32. Now
> when I install a disk it will prompt me to format. Even
> when I try to format the disk it will not work.
> Any help out there?

please restate your exact problem
ie:
was it changed in the bios to something other than 1.44 meg???

there is no way a floppy can be formatted as fat32

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Jeff Richards - 06 Nov 2003 20:40 GMT

You can't convert a floppy drive to a particular file system. Why do you
think the drive has now become FAT32? What happens when you try to format a
floppy disk? Is there an error message? Can you format the same disk in a
different machine? Have you tried installing a different drive?
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

> My daughter accidently converted my A drive to FAT 32. Now
> when I install a disk it will prompt me to format. Even
> when I try to format the disk it will not work.
> Any help out there?

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