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joseph marty <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:21:32 -0500
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Win2K Pro supports Fat 32, which is how I installed it.



If I am not mistaken, Win2k does not support FAT32 - XP does. If you did
>convert NTFS to FAT32 on a Win2k installation, it could not boot to
>Win2k. Win98, however, could access it. I don't know if that was the
>source of your particular problem.
>
>>Partition magic will change it for you
>
>
>Be careful. I used Partition Manager to change my Win2K
>NTFS C:\ partition to FAT32 and was left with an unbootable system.
>Luckily I had backed up using Drive Image and easily recovered. (I was
>using Partition Magic 6 at the time, which was certified to be
>compatible with Win2K. I haven't tried it with Partition Magic 8.)
>
>It may be possible to go from NTFS to FAT32, but it would require more
>than just running Partition Manager and rebooting. At the very least it
>might require changes to boot.ini.
>
>

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