Actually, W2k does support and will work with FAT32. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] NTFS to FAT32? > 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 > ----------------------------------------------- > The NoSpin Group > [log in to unmask] > > -----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 > > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, > articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more > http://freepctech.com > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml