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
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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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