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How to retrieve non-FAT drive
Dear All
One of my friend had installed Windows 2000 on his computer (P-II) but soon realized that the computer did not have enough resources to run Windows 2000 smoothly. So he switched back to Windows 98. There are two partitions on his hard disk. After the installation of Windows 98 on the primary partition, the second partition which was NTFS is no longer accessible in Windows 98. Since the second partition is taking put up half of his hard disk space, he will not be able to install all his necessary programs and restore his data / files. Is there anyway to convert the second partition from NTFS to FAT so that it can be used for the purpose mentioned above? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Best Regards Ishtiaque Ahmed Memon |
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How to retrieve non-FAT drive
"Ishtiaque Ahmed Memon" wrote in message ... Dear All One of my friend had installed Windows 2000 on his computer (P-II) but soon realized that the computer did not have enough resources to run Windows 2000 smoothly. So he switched back to Windows 98. There are two partitions on his hard disk. After the installation of Windows 98 on the primary partition, the second partition which was NTFS is no longer accessible in Windows 98. Since the second partition is taking put up half of his hard disk space, he will not be able to install all his necessary programs and restore his data / files. Is there anyway to convert the second partition from NTFS to FAT so that it can be used for the purpose mentioned above? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. You can run fdisk and delete the *non dos* partition then recreate as fat32... Just in case of any possible errors...you should backup all your data first here is some reading http://www.fdisk.com |
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