Hello Mandar: I used win2k a lot at my work and it is possible to convert an existing win2k ntfs installation to fat32, as win2k does support both ntfs and fat32. One of my questions would be why you want to convert to fat32, is it a performance issue you think you might be fixing? Maybe you don't need the added security that ntfs provides? It isn't necessarily a recommended procedure to convert an existing win2k ntfs installation to fat32 but it can be done (I have done it several times before and lost a lot of hair because of it) but you have to jump a few hurdles to get there. First you would need to use some partition mgmt utility like partition magic, second after the ntfs to fat32 conversion is done you would reboot the pc and probably find that windows 2000 wouldn't boot up anymore at which point you would grab your handy win2k installation cdrom, reboot the pc with win2k cd and following these instructions: 1. Boot the computer from the Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM. 2. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to repair the installation. 3. On the Repair Options screen, press R to run the emergency repair process. 4. Press M for a manual repair process. 5. Select only the Verify Windows 2000 system files option. 6. When you are prompted for an emergency repair disk (ERD), press ENTER if you have an ERD. If you do not have an ERD, press L to let Setup search your hard disk. When Setup locates the Windows 2000 installation, press ENTER to repair it. 7. A file system check is performed; this check may take a few minutes. NOTE: If Setup forces a reboot immediately after the file system check, you must perform the repair process again before continuing with the next step. 8. When you are prompted to repair files, press A to repair all files. 9. After the repair process is finished, Windows should boot normally but without any service pack files installed. Install the latest & greatest win2k service pack 3 and reboot your pc, then run windows updates to install all of the latest security/critical updates. - Yes this is a lot of work but hey we are talking about computers here, we're all about working harder not smarter. (just kidding ;-)) Original Message: From: "Mandar Naik" <[log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:37 PM Subject: [PCBUILD] NTFS to FAT32? Hi List, Is there a way to convert an NTFS partition to FAT32 without having to reload the installed OS?I have win2k pro installed on an NTFS partition,but want to revert to FAT32. Thank-you, Mandar Naik Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml