NTFS

[USA 1]

Okay,I have customers computer,one of his friends upgraded to win2000 and converted to NTFS.He wants 98SE back on it because of Hardware conflicts and unsupported devices. My question is how to lose the NTFS partition and go back to Fat32.Now I have tried before on NT4.0 and have had problems and have always resulted to lowlevel formats.I know! Dangerous thing to do,but I have been lucky. Any options available? Also, in fdisk I have tried to delete the NON DOS PARTITION and to no avail......Thanks!

[ShadowKing]

Boot from a Win2k CDRom and start setup.

Delete all of the partitions, then reboot.

That should kill em all.

[USA 1]

Okay,noted......Any other ways as well?

[ephmynus]

Boot disks made in Win98SE will be able to recognize non DOS partitions (i.e. ntfs, hpfs...) If you boot with one of these disks go to fdisk and there will be an option to go to non dos partitions and you can delete them from there. That will work, booting from the cd-rom as explained above will work and third party partitioning software such as partition magic pro will work also.

[USA 1]

Thank you! I must have missed the NON-DOS partition part some how and just kept believing it wouldn't work. Huhh......

[Daemon]

convert c: /fs:fat32 /v

may work try a help in start/help on convert. see if that possible.

oh use this command in a dos prompt. Dont type command in run this wont work.

I know if you have a fat and want ntfs

convert c: /fs:ntfs /v

will convert fat to ntfs

[USA 1]

Thank you all for your help..
Closed....................

[Sowulo]

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