From what I remember Win98 has a utility in the system tools to convert
FAT16 to FAT32 without loosing the data, but I would still back up what you
need before you ran it.

Dave Jones
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----- 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


> 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?
>

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