Dual boot??

[OnDborder]

Right now I have 98se on C drive and w2kpro on D, both are fat32.
My w2k is running rather "sluggish", like even doing the internet is slower than 98. So I thought I would reinstall w2k this weekend, this time installing the right drivers in the right order to see if that would help.

My questions to the folks who know better are;

NTfS or fat32?

If I do pick ntfs, what is the process to either convert back to fat or format and reinstall on the NTFS?

[sfa ok]

You can't convert NTFS to FAT.

[jbell]

Originally posted by OnDborder
Right now I have 98se on C drive and w2kpro on D, both are fat32.
My w2k is running rather "sluggish", like even doing the internet is slower than 98. So I thought I would reinstall w2k this weekend, this time installing the right drivers in the right order to see if that would help.

My questions to the folks who know better are;

NTfS or fat32?

If I do pick ntfs, what is the process to either convert back to fat or format and reinstall on the NTFS?

For the purposes of having Win2K - you are WAAAYYY better off running it on NTFS(5) 5 being you are running WinNT5 - you are running a new OS on an outdated file platform... do a re-install of 2K and let it pick NTFS as your file system..



JOE

[RED Hot Machine]

Originally posted by sfa ok
You can't convert NTFS to FAT.

Partion Magic 7 has the option to convert from NTFS back to FAT.

I've not tried it though.

[Burning Phoenix]

I posted this in a thread a few days ago and here goes again:

I used a startup disk to boot to the c:\ prompt and type fdisk<enter>
type <Y> into box to allow large disk support <enter>
type<3> and delete all the partitions that are there now and follow through those steps until you get bacl to where you can create a new partition
type <1> for a new partition
type <1> for primary dos partition
type <N> for maximun disk space
enter the size of your primary partition (i typed 1000) = 1 Gig <enter> then return to the first menu again
Type <1> for a new partition
type <2> for a extended partition
hit <enter> when some where in the next step i think when it shows the remaining size of your drive
Back to 1st menu again type<2> to set active
Make sure you set the 1st partition active in next step where i think you just type <1> for first partition
Once more go back to main menu and type <4> to display partition info and keep track of the drive letters for those are the 2 you have to format seperately
After the formats are complete i installed Win98 on the first label drive partition being C in my case then afterwards installed WinXP on the second partition being E for me since i had a second drive it skipped a drive letter.
When all said and done at boot up i'm given the choice to startup in WIndows XP or Windows98

[OnDborder]

Thank you for the replies.

[Softwebdev]

Originally posted by OnDborder
Right now I have 98se on C drive and w2kpro on D, both are fat32.
My w2k is running rather "sluggish", like even doing the internet is slower than 98. So I thought I would reinstall w2k this weekend, this time installing the right drivers in the right order to see if that would help.

My questions to the folks who know better are;

NTfS or fat32?

If I do pick ntfs, what is the process to either convert back to fat or format and reinstall on the NTFS?

you can convert FAT32 to NTFS in w2k by using CONVERT command

type convert /? in command prompt for more switch information..good luck

[Yodums]

NTFS is such a better partition than Fat much more secruity and such..

By the way you can't view NTFS from Win9x...

You can create them using the Win2k 4 Bootdisks if you want.