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Old February 4th 05, 05:27 AM
webster72n
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Can Fat16 be converted to FAT32 under WinME?
And if so, with Windows ME installed on it, is this done without formatting?
In the Instructions only Win98 and Win98SE are mentioned as being applied
to.
The DOS Command is: "cvt C:cvt", where C is the drive to be converted.
The other option is not available in WinME, since there is no drive
converter in the system tools.
How about it?

Harry.


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Old February 4th 05, 05:48 AM
TomV
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Harry,

This may be helpful:

http://www.md4pc.com/questions/36.htm

Tom

webster72n wrote:

Can Fat16 be converted to FAT32 under WinME?
And if so, with Windows ME installed on it, is this done without formatting?
In the Instructions only Win98 and Win98SE are mentioned as being applied
to.
The DOS Command is: "cvt C:cvt", where C is the drive to be converted.
The other option is not available in WinME, since there is no drive
converter in the system tools.
How about it?

Harry.


  #3  
Old February 4th 05, 04:33 PM
webster72n
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Tom:

You have been very helpful, thank you.
The concersion from FAT16 to FAT32 worked perfectly, but it didn't get me
back the missing 36 GB's or so, as I had hoped.
Do you know of a way to recover them?
I had inquired about that before and have PM8 ready to do it's job as soon
as I am ready, which I am not at the moment.
Maybe there is another way?

Harry.


"TomV" wrote in message
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Harry,

This may be helpful:

http://www.md4pc.com/questions/36.htm

Tom

webster72n wrote:

Can Fat16 be converted to FAT32 under WinME?
And if so, with Windows ME installed on it, is this done without

formatting?
In the Instructions only Win98 and Win98SE are mentioned as being

applied
to.
The DOS Command is: "cvt C:cvt", where C is the drive to be converted.
The other option is not available in WinME, since there is no drive
converter in the system tools.
How about it?

Harry.




  #4  
Old February 4th 05, 04:41 PM
John John
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No offense Harry, but I think you are flogging a dead horse with that
lost disk space problem.

John

webster72n wrote:

Tom:

You have been very helpful, thank you.
The concersion from FAT16 to FAT32 worked perfectly, but it didn't get me
back the missing 36 GB's or so, as I had hoped.
Do you know of a way to recover them?
I had inquired about that before and have PM8 ready to do it's job as soon
as I am ready, which I am not at the moment.
Maybe there is another way?

Harry.


"TomV" wrote in message
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Harry,

This may be helpful:

http://www.md4pc.com/questions/36.htm

Tom

webster72n wrote:


Can Fat16 be converted to FAT32 under WinME?
And if so, with Windows ME installed on it, is this done without


formatting?

In the Instructions only Win98 and Win98SE are mentioned as being


applied

to.
The DOS Command is: "cvt C:cvt", where C is the drive to be converted.
The other option is not available in WinME, since there is no drive
converter in the system tools.
How about it?

Harry.






  #5  
Old February 4th 05, 04:45 PM
Mike M
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Changing the filing system will never increase the size of a partition, to
do that you need to use tools such as fdisk, Partition Magic or BING but
then you knew that already didn't you. :-)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



webster72n wrote:

Tom:

You have been very helpful, thank you.
The concersion from FAT16 to FAT32 worked perfectly, but it didn't
get me back the missing 36 GB's or so, as I had hoped.
Do you know of a way to recover them?
I had inquired about that before and have PM8 ready to do it's job as
soon as I am ready, which I am not at the moment.
Maybe there is another way?


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Old February 4th 05, 05:35 PM
webster72n
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I am afraid so, Mike.
A soon as I am ready to tackle the thing with PM8
I will get back to this NG.
For now everything is operating seemingly ok. and I did gain some 400 MB's
back on the 2GB C drive by converting to FAT32. That was some progress
already.
Thanks Mike and everyone involved here.

Harry.


"Mike M" wrote in message
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Changing the filing system will never increase the size of a partition, to
do that you need to use tools such as fdisk, Partition Magic or BING but
then you knew that already didn't you. :-)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



webster72n wrote:

Tom:

You have been very helpful, thank you.
The concersion from FAT16 to FAT32 worked perfectly, but it didn't
get me back the missing 36 GB's or so, as I had hoped.
Do you know of a way to recover them?
I had inquired about that before and have PM8 ready to do it's job as
soon as I am ready, which I am not at the moment.
Maybe there is another way?




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Old February 4th 05, 06:10 PM
John John
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webster72n wrote:

I did gain some 400 MB's
back on the 2GB C drive by converting to FAT32.


That's due to cluster size and slack space only, nothing to do with the
actual partition size, none of that came from the lost 36GB.

FAT Partition Efficiency: Slack
http://www.storagereview.com/guide20...partSlack.html

John

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Old February 4th 05, 06:27 PM
TomV
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Harry,

I didn't know that you had PM8. You can use PM8 to convert the file
system on a partition if you need to do so again. PM8 maps out what's
on the HD, so you should be able to identify where the HD space is
currently allocated, and then determine what you want to do with it.

Tom

webster72n wrote:
I am afraid so, Mike.
A soon as I am ready to tackle the thing with PM8
I will get back to this NG.
For now everything is operating seemingly ok. and I did gain some 400 MB's
back on the 2GB C drive by converting to FAT32. That was some progress
already.
Thanks Mike and everyone involved here.

Harry.

  #9  
Old February 4th 05, 10:39 PM
webster72n
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Tom:

Once I gain some confidence, I will do just what you suggest, put the lost
part back into existence, right where
it belongs. I might need some help in doing that.
If I would send a note pad copy of the current partition status, it would
give you an idea of what I am dealing with.
Until then we're going to take it easy, lying low.
Thanks to all.

Harry.


"TomV" wrote in message
...
Harry,

I didn't know that you had PM8. You can use PM8 to convert the file
system on a partition if you need to do so again. PM8 maps out what's
on the HD, so you should be able to identify where the HD space is
currently allocated, and then determine what you want to do with it.

Tom

webster72n wrote:
I am afraid so, Mike.
A soon as I am ready to tackle the thing with PM8
I will get back to this NG.
For now everything is operating seemingly ok. and I did gain some 400

MB's
back on the 2GB C drive by converting to FAT32. That was some progress
already.
Thanks Mike and everyone involved here.

Harry.



  #10  
Old February 5th 05, 04:10 AM
Jack E Martinelli
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PM8.pdf
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...anuals/PM8.PDF

See "Resizing and Moving Partitions"

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"webster72n" wrote in message
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Tom:

Once I gain some confidence, I will do just what you suggest, put the lost
part back into existence, right where
it belongs. I might need some help in doing that.
If I would send a note pad copy of the current partition status, it would
give you an idea of what I am dealing with.
Until then we're going to take it easy, lying low.
Thanks to all.

Harry.


"TomV" wrote in message
...
Harry,

I didn't know that you had PM8. You can use PM8 to convert the file
system on a partition if you need to do so again. PM8 maps out what's
on the HD, so you should be able to identify where the HD space is
currently allocated, and then determine what you want to do with it.

Tom

webster72n wrote:
I am afraid so, Mike.
A soon as I am ready to tackle the thing with PM8
I will get back to this NG.
For now everything is operating seemingly ok. and I did gain some 400

MB's
back on the 2GB C drive by converting to FAT32. That was some progress
already.
Thanks Mike and everyone involved here.

Harry.





 




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