I  have Partition Magic 4 and Just erased the dual
boot with Win 2K B3 and resized to accomodate
what I needed data wise.

You should be able to convert your C drive to FAT 32,
then resize your E drive and Joto FAT 16. This is fairly simple.
If you don't want to risk doing any damage to your drive goto
powerquest's homepage and download the trial of PQ4, this allows
to change everything (with limits) but not actually make changes,
that's what I do when ever I partitioned my drive for Win 2K.

You never mention whether or not your using NT Worstationn boot procces
or Boot Magic  (included with PQ4--I'm not sure about yours). As long
as you don't loose data on your C drive then your fine.

But as always if you can--BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP.
Anything that can happen, probably will happen.

--Patrick Black
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~black27/
----- Original Message -----
From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 8:14 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Fat32 and Dual Boot


> I was wondering if it is possible to convert my C drive to fat32 and
> still be able to maintain my dual boot capabilities between Win98 and
> NT Workstation. I have run out of options as far as available space
> on my C:\ . I would like to use Partition Magic 4.0 to convert my C
> drive to Fat 32. This physical drive consists of 2 partitions: C: fat
> 16 and E: Fat 32. Because of the 2 Gig limit for fat 16 I cannot
> convert the E drive to fat 16 and resize to gain the much needed
> space. Therefore, I am forced to convert my C drive to fat32 and then
> take the space required from the other partition. My only concern at
> this time is how do I keep my dual boot capabilities? Can I copy the
> boot.ini file to a safe place, perform the needed transition and then
> setup a small 100meg  fat16 bootsector partition and copy the
> original boot.ini file back to the newly formed fat 16 partition or
> am I way off base?
> Barry A. Clark
> MCP (Future MCSE!)

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