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Need help re-partitioning a NTFS back into FAT32...

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SuperFreaky

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I am downgrading my brothers computer from Win2k to 98 (yes, I know its sad). He has 12GB hard drive and somehow I messed up and only partitioned 2GB using Fdisk (I swear I told it to do the whole thing into FAT32). Well now he has installed a bunch of stuff and doesn't want to reformat. I've installed a demo for Partition Magic (hoping I wouldn't have to reformat) but whenever I try running the program it tells me "Partition's drive letter cannot be identified".

What can I do to get him his remaining 10GB of space back without reformating? (the drive IS currently FAT32, I just checked)


Thanks for any help!! 🙂
 

Boot up using Dos or Win9.x boot disk to a DOS prompt.

Then, type: FDISK /MBR

Then, Del non dos partition using FDISK.

Then, FDISK to create partition/s and FORMAT as usual.
 
Well I dont know of any way to convert from NTFS to FAT32. However, networked computers can share files between the operating systems easily, so if possible, network it to another PC, copy all the data, reformat as the previous post stated, and then copy it all back over the network. Sounds like a lot, but you only need to copy files over than you cannot reinstall from a cd, so forget about windows and applications, just copy mp3s and program installers.
 
He can keep w2k, and you can simply use w2k Disk Management to turn the unused 10Gb into an extended partition and logical drive formatted with either NTFS or FAT32. Then, if he wants, since C: is NTFS, you can map the new drive D: to an empty folder on the C: drive and not use the D: label - and it will all appear to him as one larger drive.
 
I've already FDisk'ed the NTFS partition once and made a 2GB FAT 32 partition.. there are 10GB right now that are either not being used? or still formatted with NTFS?

Can I regain those 10GB without having mulitple partitions on the drive?
 
if those 10GB is in NTFS format
i think you need another drive to take care of those 10GB data while you do the conversion
 

Norton Ghost might be the utility that could merge an unuse volume an an active volume into one volume, but I'm not too sure if it work with NTFS or Win2k.
 
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