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ray steward
Jan 1, 2007, 09:47 AM
I have a hard drive which is formatted as ntfs which I want to format as fat32 so that I can put Windows98 onto it, but it refuses to reformat with fdisk, is it possible to go back to fat32 or not, any suggestions appreciated

ScottGem
Jan 1, 2007, 10:56 AM
You don't format with FDisk. You use FDISK to remove whatever partition is on it and recreate them. You then use a Win98 version of Format to format the drive.

kiwimac
Jan 1, 2007, 12:30 PM
Scottgem is right. Use Fdisk to remove the NTFS partition and then use it again to put a new partition in place. Once you have done that then you can use the Win98 Startup disk (or Win 98 CD-Rom) to make it a Fat32 HD.

ray steward
Jan 2, 2007, 09:51 AM
I have a hard drive which is formatted as ntfs whic i want to format as fat32 so that I can put Windows98 onto it, but it refuses to reformat with fdisk, is it possible to go back to fat32 or not, any suggestions appreciated


Many thanks for the replies, I will put them to good use.