The FAT32 converter will always fail if there are any errors on the hard
drive.  As a previous "lister" responded, using fdisk to reformat the drive
will solve the problem *BUT* will obviously result in all data on the drive
being lost.

If you can't do this (reformat the drive) then purchase PowerQuest's
Partition Magic v4.0.  Partition Magic will convert a drive even *with*
errors.  It's a pretty incredible utility and will do a lot more than FAT32
conversion.  Worth every penny.

Terry Hardy
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-----Original Message-----
From: graynes <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 8:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] FAT 32 Conversion Problem


> Trying to convert a 1 gig WD hard drive to FAT 32 in Windows 98, I get the
error
>message "Hard Drive has bad sectors - Cannot convert drive with bad sectors
to
>FAT 32."
> Does anyone know of a fix  or work around for this?
>Thanks.
>
>Gary Raynes
>
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