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eric-marques-net
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Icon 2000-04-17 16:34:00

Last time I installed W2K I converted my drive to NTFS and then installed PC Anywhere 9.0 and W2K refused to start even in safe mode
I booted with a win98 boot disk and I could not access my NTFS drive and had to re partition loosing everything

What I want to ask is if there is any program that can convert an NTFS drive to FAT32 in MS DOS mode that I can copy onto a CD just in case

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Eric Marques
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YuppieScum
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Icon 2000-04-17 16:41:00

There is a tool that will allow Win9x to read NTFS partitions (search will find it) but there is no tool to convert NTFS to FAT (12 16 or 32)


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DocSilly
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No, FAT32 -> NTFS is a oneway road ... but there are programs that'll allow you to read (free) or read/write (not free) on NTFS, available for DOS or Win9x.

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Ekstreme
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You MUST run live update before rebooting after isntalling pcanywhere 9. otherwise, you get what happened to you http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/pca.nsf/pfdocs/1999070115565012
all the info is there

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ewaite
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DocSilly

You can convert NTFS back to FAT32 with Partition Magic 5. You just have to use the boot disks that it makes. And remember to defrag the hard drive first or it will take a really long time.

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A-guy
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Pq5 mangled my drive when converting ntfs to fat32. Be careful.

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A-guy
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ooops meant pm5

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