Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.
On 29-Mar-99 Ben Messinger wrote:
>> Nick Rudd wrote:
>>
>> yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering
>> if there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16
>> without reinstalling windows.
>>
>> Chris Smith
>
>
> Partition Magic will convert from fat16 to fat32 or vice-versa. It does
> it with a gui and is quite easy and in my experience safe. I have
> converted a partition to fat32 and then back to fat16 at a later date
> with no problems.
>
> One responder asked why would you not want to leave it fat32. My
> experience is that lilo will not work on the mbr of a fat32 drive, and
> also a fat32 drive is slower than the same drive with fat16. But that
> doesn't really matter to me anymore - now _all_ my partitions are ext2
> <g>.
Lilo work well with fat32 because he dont need to handle the fat32 partition
and because linux is installed on a ext2. fat32 dont change the mbr, just the
partition table and the fat of the partition. I use this setup from osr2
(win95).
Benoit Joly
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