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re: can i use a win98 disk boot disk to format an NTFS system partition
Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:56 pm
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Posted by Sanjit Keskar (34 messages posted)


You mean that the format command WILL FUNCTION but post formatting the partition will have a FAT32 file system?? Is this what you are saying that it is a way to get back to FAT32 from NTFS?? ork and that my parition


On Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 5:57 pm, Alan Masterman wrote:
>No. You can use it to reformat an NTFS partition to FAT32, by running FDISK first,
>but you can't perform an NTFS format as such.


>
>When you boot, the DOS prompt will appear, but it simply won't recognise the existence
>of the NTFS partition. It will only recognise your CD drive and the RAM drive D
>which Windows sets up (and, of course, your floppy drive if you have one).
>
>


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re: can i use a win98 disk boot disk to format an NTFS system partition (Alan Masterman: Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 5:57 pm)

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-can i use a win98 disk boot disk to format an NTFS system partition (Sanjit Keskar: Thu, Dec 7, 2006, 1:46 pm)
*re: can i use a win98 disk boot disk to format an NTFS system partition (gewg_: Thu, Dec 7, 2006, 5:44 pm)
-re: can i use a win98 disk boot disk to format an NTFS system partition (Alan Masterman: Thu, Dec 7, 2006, 5:57 pm)
*re: can i use a win98 disk boot disk to format an NTFS system partition (Sanjit Keskar: Thu, Dec 7, 2006, 7:56 pm)
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