downgrading ntfs drive to fat32

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Roger Batts - 18 Aug 2004 02:38 GMT

I have a small hard drive that was given to me formated
in NTFS. I want to put it in my son's computer which is
running Win98. I realize Win 98 is a FAT32 format. How
can I reformat the NTFS drive back to FAT32 (preferably
without putting in another computer)? The drive was used
as a secondary for Win2K Pro.

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pjp - 18 Aug 2004 02:47 GMT

Use FDisk to delete current partition(s) and recreate.

> I have a small hard drive that was given to me formated
> in NTFS. I want to put it in my son's computer which is
> running Win98. I realize Win 98 is a FAT32 format. How
> can I reformat the NTFS drive back to FAT32 (preferably
> without putting in another computer)? The drive was used
> as a secondary for Win2K Pro.

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Jeff Richards - 18 Aug 2004 05:59 GMT

You can't convert without additional assistance. You can delete the
partition and re-create it using FDISK. If FDISK doesn't see an NTFS
partition (not all W9x versions do) then use ZAP or WIPE at this site to
clear the NTFS partition so FDISK is working with a clean disk.
http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html

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>I have a small hard drive that was given to me formated
> in NTFS. I want to put it in my son's computer which is
> running Win98. I realize Win 98 is a FAT32 format. How
> can I reformat the NTFS drive back to FAT32 (preferably
> without putting in another computer)? The drive was used
> as a secondary for Win2K Pro.

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