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> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jorge Ocasio
>
> At 06:39 PM 9/30/98 PDT, you wrote:
> >        I had installed Win 98 over Win95B OSR2 with SP1 and IE 4.01 but
> now Win
> >98 is malfunctioning.  I wanted to re-install Win95B
>
> Karl,
>
> Did you convert to FAT32 after you upgraded to Win98?  If you did so this
> is the cause of your problem.  Once you convert you lose the ability to
> un-install Win98 and reinstall Win95.
>
> What you are forced to do is to format your hard drive back to FAT16 and
> then reinstall Win95B.  Obviously, this drastic step will wipe
> out and data
> you had stored on the drive.  I hope you had backed up your data.
>

While the end result may be the same -- Karl needs to reformat
his hard disk and reinstall Windows -- but Jorge seems to be
confused about the reasons why.

The format command will have no affect on whether a disk is
set up as FAT32 or FAT16.  That is controlled by FDISK, long
before the format command is ever run.

Also, Windows 95B will run just fine on a FAT32 disk.

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