Partition Magic from PowerQuest, I believe, can convert FAT 16 to FAT 32 on
the fly without loss of data.  Latest version is 8.0.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] After the fact switch from FAT 16 to FAT 32


> Two years after installing Win98SE on six new machines, we discovered that
> one of them was set up with FAT 16 rather than FAT 32.  This results in
> about 11% percent of the hard drive being available.  This was a real bozo
> error.  However, in the two years it took to surface, a lot of data and
> installed software has accumulated.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance.  Dave Ralph
>
>
> David E. Ralph
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