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| 388446 | 2005-09-15 00:00:00 | hi,just got a brand :waughh: new laptop after my last one got nicked and may have quoted ntfs when loading xp prof. On checking multi cd/dvd have found that I have to have Fat32 as cannot format a dvd with ntfs. Cannot get thru to Toshiba, can I change HDD to fat32.or do I have to reformat It is a 60gb with no partiton Any help will be great |
loftyboyd (1310) | ||
| 388447 | 2005-09-15 00:27:00 | There is no way to go from NTFS to Fat32 using Windows Xp without a fdisk and format. Partition Magic 8.0 can do this however I have never tried it. I am not aware of any shareware utils. I would not be to keen to go back to fat32 if I was you, NTFS is far more reliable. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 388448 | 2005-09-15 00:43:00 | On checking multi cd/dvd have found that I have to have Fat32 as cannot format a dvd with ntfs. since almost all new systems have ntfs xp on them I cant understand what you mean ...........virtually any new system with xp on it will be ntfs and lots of them come with dvd writers.......doesn't make sense........? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 388449 | 2005-09-15 00:44:00 | I think you are getting mixed up.........even on an ntfs system you can format floppies for example n Fat not a problem so what you need to understand is that you can format yoru dvd to fat32 using an ntfs system to format or you certainly should be able to......it's not really relevant that your sysetm is ntfs its fat32 that's required on the dvd..........do you get what I mean ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 388450 | 2005-09-15 03:22:00 | Thks, will go and buy a dvd disk and see what happens,had a Dell and insurance sent a toshiba tecra a3.So far very happy with it.cheers and many thanks :D | loftyboyd (1310) | ||
| 388451 | 2005-09-15 04:43:00 | Not really relevant to the question but I put in another HDD yesterday - 120Gb, couldn't get it to set up partition 2 (101Gb) in Fat32 so gave up formatted it in XP NTFS and then ghosted my old partition over from the other drive and got my 101Gb Fat32 that way. Yeeha. I love Ghost. | pctek (84) | ||
| 388452 | 2005-09-15 06:37:00 | Not really relevant to the question but I put in another HDD yesterday - 120Gb, couldn't get it to set up partition 2 (101Gb) in Fat32 so gave up formatted it in XP NTFS and then ghosted my old partition over from the other drive and got my 101Gb Fat32 that way. Yeeha. I love Ghost. Why didn't you use the "new" FDISK to format in FAT32? It is supposed to handle partitions up to 137GB. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 388453 | 2005-09-15 07:50:00 | Why didn't you use the "new" FDISK to format in FAT32? It is supposed to handle partitions up to 137GB. Which new FDisk - I tried a couple... Doesn't matter anyway - Ghost does the trick nicely. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 388454 | 2005-09-15 09:36:00 | The one on this page ( . microsoft . com/?kbid=263044" target="_blank">support . microsoft . com) . It was discussed in a couple of threads recently . Would be interested to know which ones you tried and why they didn't work . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
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