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by jenral_sam 1 view

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Is there any way of converting a NTFS HD to FAT32 or 16, i dont really mind, because the clients of the server(WinNT) are Win9X and have Fat32 HD's, file transfer between The server and the clients is very slow.
i have tryed partition magic and failed (doesnt like WinNT).

Sam

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by dklippert

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by rrajforu

Hi Sam,

I am sorry to tell you that there is no way of converting NTFS back or to FAT 16 or 32. NTFS is a proprietary of Microsoft. Please do not try any third party tools to accomplish this, you will simply loose your data. And as far as transfer of files is slow, it could be mainly due to the hardware used and size of the network. You can also use SCSI or SCSI Wide (large networks) to achieve better transfer speed on your server.

Thanx, Raj.

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