Win 95 to use FAT32.

[elkinm]

I know someone with an old system runing windows 95B with a partitioned 4 GB FAT hard drive. I would like to convert it to FAT32 to increase space and possibly improve performance.

Does anybody know if there is a FAT to FAT32 convirter out there for Win 95 and if Win 95 needs some new drivers of upgrades to accomodate FAT32 without doing a new install.

Thank You
Michael Elkin

 

[Budman]

Win95B allready supports fat32,If I am not mistaken there's a build in utility to convert fat16 to fat32 .

If not you can use Partition magic to convert & resize it.

 

[elkinm]

I believe only Windows 98 has the builst in utility, but Microsoft released a seperate converter only file for Win 95 which I used to convert to FAT32 so long ago. This convertion was practicaly identical to the one done by Win 98 may even be the same program which is why I am looking for it. This website has a link to a program called CVT. I am sure that the program I used was not called that so I was wondring if anybody knwe if it was any good or the same as what I need. Also wince my program seemed like the win 98 one, I was wondering if some Win 98 users can check the convertion shortcut as see if the actual program it pints is big or not, and if someone could email it to me as an attachment at elkin@uiuc.edu.

Thank
Michael Elkin

 

[elkinm]

I remembered that one of the people on my network had windows 98 so I coppied it from them. I also noticed that the c:\windows directory is not accessable even if all of C: is shared sharing it completely works but system 32 is completely visible. I bileive this is dew to the Win 98 system protection which hides the windows and system32 directory contents until you specificly click to view the comtents. If anybody knows how to disable it I would apreciate if you tell me, but back on topic.

It is also called cvt and it runs a wizard in win 98 just like the cnverter I used in win 95, but the win 98 converter could not run in win 95 even with the dll files. The mictorsoft provided cvt is MS-DOS window based and although it may work I don't trust it as I have never used it and dos programs usualy have done a half fast job with me.
If possible I would like to find the original wizard based converter for Win 95 that was out slightly before win 98.

Also, on a diferent note, I noticed that the win 95 system had old style explorer loaded (not IE based). With win 95, my explorer was updated and I had desktop as webpage capabilities with IE 4.0 and the win 95 system has IE 5.5 installed but no web content support, I was wondering if there is a way to install web content support and the new explorer interface modifications without a reinstall or installing IE 4.

Thanks

 

[elkinm]

And one more thing, can partition magic resize two active partitions without loosing data on either partiton, as the 4 GB is split into two 2 GB partitions and he is running out of space on the C partition but D has plenty of room on it.

Thanks

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

If possible I would like to find the original wizard based converter for Win 95 that was out slightly before win 98.

Do you have the Win95b install CD? If so, put CD in drive, let it autorun, choose add/remove software. Under add/remove Windows components, look for Drivespace32 and install that.

And one more thing, can partition magic resize two active partitions without loosing data on either partiton, as the 4 GB is split into two 2 GB partitions and he is running out of space on the C partition but D has plenty of room on it.

Yes.

 

[AndyHui]

The program is called CVT32. If you had a full install of your Windows 95B, you will find it in the Start Menu under Programs/Accessories/System.

It is not DriveSpace32. That is something else.

As for the Windows Desktop Update, please read the FAQ: How do I get Active Desktop/Quick Launch toolbar for Win95 or WinNT?

 

[elkinm]

It is a real win 95b CD but I don't think the instalation is full and I cannot find the CVT32 file to run. Is there any way to install it as I don't see it in add/remove windows components.

And thans for the Active Desktop Update, I am installing it right now.

 

[elkinm]

Well I updated the desktop and I wish I could say it was flawless but it was anything but.
I do have the new explorer windows that are nice, but I don't have a active desktop control in display properties and I cannot go into folder options as it says the command is restricted. Win 95 restricted ? now that's funny. I did install the win 95 update not the NT one. But most imprtantly the start menue does not work. I click on the start menue, it goes down but nothing happens. Everything else is livable but I do need the start menue. Is there any reason that this install would go so wrong. Also, is the a way to envoke the run command without the start menue as the actual command to run the install wizard on my system is one character to long for ms-dos so I can't enter it any other way.

Thanks

 

[AndyHui]

Hhmm...what a mess.

To install the FAT32 converter, go to Add Remove Programs and select the Windows Components tab. The select the System Accessories (or something like that), then select the individual component.

Sounds like your system is a real mess. Can you start again or something? Which version of IE did you try to upgrade to? IE6 is not supported by Win95, so the highest version you can use is 5.5 SP2.

 

[elkinm]

It was definetly messed up, I could not fix the start menue and a reinstall of 95 was pointless so I installed an old Win 98 SE which has the things I wanted without the hatles of having to find them. Converting to FAT 32 freed up over half a GIG of hard disk space.

The only real anoyance left is windows not letting you see the windows folder and the system folder by default. Is there any way to dissable this?

Thanks fo all your help.