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September 21, 2009 at 10:58 AM
ellabellablue

Trying to convert Fat32 drive to NTFS drive – dual boot situation

by ellabellablue . Updated 16 years, 9 months ago

Hello All,

Here is the situation:

I have two drives in my computer. My old drive is a Fat32 drive (C drive) that I had windows 98 on. I then upgraded my computer and added a new drive with windows XP on it (E drive). When I boot up it asks me to choose between starting up with Windows XP and a drive with an unspecified OS on it. I always choose to load with the E drive with Windows XP.

I have been getting alot of IE errors and IE wont download updates. So I thought to rectify this drive situation in case this is part of the issue.

I now moved all the info I want to keep from my C drive to my E drive. And I tried to format the old C drive from Fat32 to NTFS but it will not giving an error about it could not do it.

I then unplugged the old C drive hoping to just boot from the Windows XP drive but it wouldnt let me.

Can someone help me with the steps I need to make to just have the E drive now be my C drive and boot from that and the old C drive to become just an extra NTFS drive to hold info?

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