Donna,
You cannot convert from NTFS to FAT, only the other way.
You may resize the existing NTFS or make smaller partitions of the NTFS
volume.
If you have a 115g hdd, I am not sure what the NTFS volume limitation
is, but you should have at least 1 primary partition.
It is always best to start with a Fat partition (FAT32 or whatever) and
then you can convert to NTFS later should you need to.
I usually keep my operating systems on NTFS and data, pgms on FAT32.
C: is FAT 16 and only 100mb, which I keep for my Boot partition.
It is easy to back up and keeping it small eliminates pgms from
installing stuff to it without having to ask where they should go(error
message about size causes them to not be able to be installed on C:).


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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Donna Hampe
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 3:10 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Problems with Partition Magic on New Hard Drive

New computer - P4 2.40MHz 512 Ram - 110GB Samsung SV1204H HD Win XP Pro
OS

The HD shows NTFS 114,494.5MB

I have tried to Partition this drive and get an error message:
A new partition could not be created on drive 1.

Cannot resize. There are no primary or logical partitions on this drive.

When I try to convert the NTFS to Fat. The error message says it can't.

I have partitioned another drive but it was Fat and I had no problem.

I would really appreciate help on how I can do a partition.

Thank you

Donna Hampe

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