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by fredc1950

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Can you change nfts formatback to a Fat32.I have a hard-drive that had xp on it and would to fdisk it.I would like to remove anytraces of nfts off of it to put fat32 on it.Any help someone can give

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by saihib

Reformat it using a Win98 boot disk. Use fdisk to delete the NTFS partition then recreate the partition and format it using the boot disk.

by dmiles

You cannot convert a NTFS partition back to FAT 32,the only option is to purchase Partition Magic software,that will accomplish this.

Answer 1 refers to fdisking the drive,which you will lose all data,do a backup before attempting this procedure.

Using FDISK,you will have to delete the Non-DOS partitions first before you delete the Primary DOS partitions

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