Ralph,

   Partition Magic can accomplish this.

        Lonnie

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Ralph [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] After the fact switch from FAT 16 to FAT 32


Two years after installing Win98SE on six new machines, we discovered
that one of them was set up with FAT 16 rather than FAT 32.  This
results in about 11% percent of the hard drive being available.  This
was a real bozo error.  However, in the two years it took to surface, a
lot of data and installed software has accumulated.

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?

Thanks in advance.  Dave Ralph


David E. Ralph
Chemung County Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
215 E. Church St., Ste 301
Elmira, NY 14901
VOX 607-734-1647 Ext. 205
FAX 607-734-1018
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