changing the HD partition's file system

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Hi,
My HD has two partitions one has the NTFS file system and the other one have the ext3 file system...
I want to cahnge the first one from NTFS to FAT or FAT32 how can I do that? and will it erase everything on my Hard-drive?

thanks SIJP.

 

[Guest]

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You can convert from FAT32 to NTFS, but not the other way around. It requires a format, and yes, you would erase your hard drive.
Is there a particular reason you want to do this?
Coach Ed

----- sijp wrote: -----

Hi,
My HD has two partitions one has the NTFS file system and the other one have the ext3 file system...
I want to cahnge the first one from NTFS to FAT or FAT32 how can I do that? and will it erase everything on my Hard-drive?

thanks SIJP.

 

[Mike]

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If the NTFS partition has the OS on it, no you can't without starting over..


"sijp" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> My HD has two partitions one has the NTFS file system and the other one
have the ext3 file system...
> I want to cahnge the first one from NTFS to FAT or FAT32 how can I do
that? and will it erase everything on my Hard-drive?
>
> thanks SIJP.