First, go to your Start Button; then Programs; Then accessories and then System Tools.  There should be a drive converter tool there.  If not go to your run command and try typing CVT1.exe and then enter.  That should work for you.

Good Luck

Walter

Dave Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From what I remember Win98 has a utility in the system tools to convert
FAT16 to FAT32 without loosing the data, but I would still back up what you
need before you ran it.

Dave Jones
http://www.vdoguy.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ralph"
To:

Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] After the fact switch from FAT 16 to FAT 32


> Short of copying all data to another hard drive for temporary storage,
then
> re-partitioning with Fdisk and reinstalling Win98SE and all software from
> scratch, a tedious and long task, does anyone have a suggestion for a way
> to do the conversion to FAT 32 that would preserve existing programs and
data?
>

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