ntfs to fat32?

[Mountain]

I used ntfs when i installed xp pro at school. HATING IT!!! , anyway,,, can i change the system to fat32?
I have activated and all that. I get general protection faults in programs , I problems with a gforce2 card. I have changed the card. would a bad stick of memory cause problems, like the machine can't copy a floppy. I copy to a floppy at school and can't read it at home on my 98 machine. NTFS??? problems. thanks.

 

[Jeff7]

Those problems don't sound like NTFS at all. It's possible that a bad memory stick is causing the errors. Run memtest86 on it for at least several hours.
As for the floppies, NTFS isn't to blame. Floppy disks and drives only support FAT12; can't do anything else. Try to get ahold of one of those floppy drive cleaning kits - usually only a few dollars; they scrub the read/write heads. Sometimes if the heads are dirty or misaligned, the data can only be read again by that same drive.

So far, my only complaints about NTFS are that Win9x and earlier can't see it, and all the security stuff kind of gets in the way sometimes; it also seems to be a bigger draw on the system resources. That's my experience with it anyway; I'm trying to stick with it, because FAT32's days are numbered.

 

[MGMorden]

NTFS won't cause any of those problems you mentioned. As stated above, you probably want to check the memory. If that isn't the problem then you want to check other things; it isn't NTFS (you want NTFS. Trust me, FAT32 has as much place on a modern system as DOS 3.0).

 

[AFSOC_Commando]

Mountain,

To answer your question... YES you can convert to fat32 with the latest version of Partition Magic by Powerquest....

BUT, like the above comments note... You shouldn't need to nor really want to since you will lose alot of space due to cluster size and other inherent features of NTFS that FAT32 will not provide...

 

[Derango]

And about your floppy problem....you can't format a floppy disk as NTFS.