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He justs needs to delete the partition and move it to the other PC.
Assuming that the other PC is not using XP, they should:
1) FDISK to create the new partition
2) Format the drive in Fat32.
"Art" <noonehere@longone.net> wrote in message
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> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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>> "jerry" <jerrymur@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>> Hello,
>>> I have a hard drive, used as a slave, and was changed from fat32 to
>>> ntfs.
>> I
>>> am giving it to my daughter, but she must use as fat32. I am using
>>> winxp.
>>> How do I format the drive so she can use it on her computer?
>>> Thanks,
>>> jsm
>>>
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> Pegasus wrote...
>> You launch the Storage Manager, delete the NTFS partition, then
>> create a FAT32 partition and format it. You will, of course, lose
>> all data.
>
> Jerry:
> Pegasus' instructions are fine assuming the hard drive in question does
> not exceed 32 GB in capacity. If it's a 40 GB disk or larger, the Disk
> Management utility in XP (Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk
> Management) will be able to partition & format the disk only up to a
> maximum of 32 GB in FAT32. If you require a single FAT32 partition
> encompassing the full capacity of the disk greater than 32 GB, then you
> will have to use the FDISK and FORMAT commands from a Win9x/Me startup
> (floppy) disk to do so after first using FDISK to delete the NTFS
> partition. If you don't have a Win9x/Me startup disk, you can download a
> DOS boot disk with these commands from a number of sites on the net. Just
> do a Google search for "DOS boot disk".
> Art
>
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