Originally posted by: Acts837
I have a drive that was a slave drive with NTFS. I now want to make a single master drive with FAT32. Can it be done and how?
Originally posted by: Acts837
I don't care about data. It isn't allowing me to format with anything other than NTFS.
Originally posted by: Steven the Leech
Cant you run FDISK, delete partitions/make new partition and then format? If available use ghost 2003 to delete partitions and format.
Originally posted by: Steven the Leech
My bad I was thinking partition magic, edited my post.
Originally posted by: Acts837
Guess I didn't give more details up front. I tried FDISK. Keep getting error reading fixed disk. Tried Seagate Disk Utilities, updated MBR and wrote zeros across entire disk, no dice. The disk comes up error free with the utilies but I can't run FDISK, load an OS, or anything to the drive except for making it an NTFS slave in my XP rig. Any suggestions? Very frustrating since I have spent about 6.5 hours moving this drive between systems, running diagnostics, and such.
Originally posted by: Gunbuster
ya think it might be broken?Keep getting error reading fixed disk
The disk comes up error free with the utilies
Originally posted by: Steven the Leech
I agree FDISK if you dont own a copy of partition magic. I use PM 7.0 Boot CD to do all partition sizing and formatting due the speed and ease of use, I can create multiple partitions, format them, and set one active in less than 2 minutes. The disk manufacturer may also have a good program for doing this too.
How big is the partition/drive? If it's 32 MB or higher then Windows will always default to an NTFS format.I don't care about data. It isn't allowing me to format with anything other than NTFS.
You got MSN?
dl the the software from your hdd maker. Boot into it and then delete and format the parition fat32.
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Destroy all the partitions you want.
How big is the partition/drive? If it's 32 MB or higher then Windows will always default to an NTFS format.
run the window Nt/2000/Xp setup disk.... while in set up... just delete the partion