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Richard Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:15:33 -0500
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I've done it BUT you got to make sure you have enough drive space to go from Fat32 to Fat16.  In the Newest PM4, there was information on what you can expect on size increase.  I believe there is some safety features built into PM4 that version 3 did not have but when I went from Fat32 to Fat16 on a 2 GB C: drive and I had 800 MB of files at Fat32 and that went to nearly 1.2 GB of files on Fat16.



Richard A. Freeman, ADP Program
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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>>> "Lindstrom, Rick" <[log in to unmask]> 02/06/99 08:08pm >>>
Greetings-

Partition Magic *will* convert partitions from FAT to FAT32 and vice-versa.

Does anyone know if it will safely convert a Win95 boot partition (C:) from
FAT32 to FAT?

I inadvertently formatted a drive as FAT32 and installed Win95. After
getting the whole thing setup over a period of weeks, I went to install
NT4.0 and discovered the problem. I have Partition Magic and have
experimented with converting other partitions to FAT, and it works, but I
have yet to gather the courage to risk the boot partition.

Anybody out there with expertise in this area?

Thanks-

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Rick Lindstrom
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Tallahassee, FL
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