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.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
At 10:46 02/11/03, w1zard99 wrote:
>Partition magic will change it for you
>Jim Hodges

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.

Regards,
Bill

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