hoogeveen Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 hi everyone...haing a trouble with NTFS disk format...i guess i formated my computer with NTFS file format and now cannot format my computer with FAT 32 i heard something that it is possible to solve this problem by using "fdisk"..please can someone tell how to do this....please.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mthibadeau Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Once you go to NTFS from FAT32, there is no going back. Your only option will probably be to reformat an select FAT32 at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNIGHT Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 True and not true. The only way to go back to fat32 once you have formated in ntfs is to use Partition Magic 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM5K Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Why do you want to use FAT32 for ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoogeveen Posted February 8, 2002 Author Share Posted February 8, 2002 i have some games i cannot play under xp then wanna return to my old w98 or me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trpn Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 i dont understand what you are asking do you want to format and reinstall windows on fat32? I always thought you could use fdisk to that 1. grab a win98 bootdisk at www.bootdisk.com 2. startup off that boot disk 3. type fdisk 4. delete the ntfs partition (it shoudl be in the unknown filesystem listing) 5. create a new partition 6. restart your computer and format by typing format c: (or whatever you use) shouldn't this set it back to fat32? if you are using windowsxp just install it on the existing file system. correct me if i am wrong ... about what i said or if that is noty what you mean in your post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM5K Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 ;-) I was that way too for a while, then decided none of the games were good enough for me to continue to put up with 9X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplex Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Originally posted by hoogeveen i have some games i cannot play under xp then wanna return to my old w98 or me.... If you want to run a game in Windows 98, try compatibility mode. Otherwise if you really want to re-format and reinstal windows here's how to go about that. (You can not format, but convert into FAT32 using partition magic or system commander, but you'll still have xp and you could have problems as well) Get a win98 boot disk (or millennium... anything win boot disk that ran in FATx). Boot onto that disk without CD-ROM support. Type FDISK /MBR. That will clear out your master boot record. You shouldn't get any response from that command. Type FDISK. Go in and delete your NTFS partition, then create a FAT partition. Restart still booting from the floppy with CD-ROM support. You should now be able to get to your C: drive. Type C: then FORMAT C: . Follow the prompts. When it asks for a label for your newly formatted drive, type SIMPLEX because it's a cool name ;) . Type D: (where D is your CD-ROM drive) and have fun installing that piece of trash that crashes every 2 minutes. Use the FAT32 converter in WIN98 to convert your drive to FAT32 after you have installed windows. I hope you don't do this. Use XP. It's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 Does the operating system detect that Partition Tragic 7 is reverting the system back to FAT32 and stop all the services that NTFS Requires?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=12946 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 i think he formated his disk to ntfs and wants to revert back to fat 32 the fdisk way is to delete all logical disk partitions and re create them or u can just use partition magic 7 as state above :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoogeveen Posted February 13, 2002 Author Share Posted February 13, 2002 thanks to everyone for the replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 As far as I know, teh only differnence between the Partition Magic and trpn's fdisk route is that Partition Magic _converts_ so that you shouldn't lose any data, where as fdisk will start you from scratch on that partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel F. Administrators Posted February 13, 2002 Administrators Share Posted February 13, 2002 From MS Help file on the convert utility Important Once you convert a drive or partition to NTFS, you cannot simply convert it back to FAT or FAT32. You will need to reformat the drive or partition which will erase all data including programs and personal files on the partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wortmanov Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 My idea: just use Partition Magic 7, it's much easier than fdisk. GrEeTz Wortmanov (daan.wortman@wanadoo.nl) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Originally posted by Wortmanov My idea: just use Partition Magic 7, it's much easier than fdisk. GrEeTz Wortmanov (daan.wortman@wanadoo.nl) Try it one day, see if it works. Everyone says use PM 7 and it never works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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