re: Format XP, and turn NTFS to FAT32
Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 10:43 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by czyxzy
(594 messages posted)
I almost always do it the old fashioned way. I boot with a W98 Boot Floppy. I then
run Fdisk. It can't read NTFS partitions, but it shows them as "Unknown." Just use
Fdisk to delete the partition. Then use Fdisk to recreat a new partition and format
it. when Fdisk is started, it will present a message about finding a disk larger
than "whatever." Answer, "Yes," and it will use FAT32. I don't use the procedures
on the XP CD, because the first time I tried it, selecting only my C-Partition for
action, it formatted the entire drive, killing the two additional partitions and
all data on the drive.
Was that an MS "Feature" or something I did? I have no reason to suspect what I did.
My rule is that MS almost never lets you do exactly what you want to do... or what
you think you're doing. Excessive, maybe. But there you go.
On Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 5:51 am, Art wrote:
>The problem is: i have XP installed, but there are lots of problems while it´s
running.
>So i want to format the disk, to start a clean installation and to use fat32 partition
>instead of the ntsf that i have now. So how do i format an ntsf partition and convert
>it to fat32, in order to start a clean installation?
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