[NotHisTechiness]

i searched on the forums for about an hour on how to convert ntfs back to fat32 and my eyes are a bit tired now so i'm gonna cheat and ask you guys again. anyways, i tried using win2k to reformat but it said my 80 gig was too big to reformat and for some reason my 98 startup sees the 80 gig as a 12. any ideas guys and gals??

[NotHisTechiness]

ok, max blasted both my c and d drive to fat 32 but now i can't install win98se. it seems i have errors on them now and fdisk still doesn't wanna see my 80 gig.

[Tactics]

I've ran into a problem with a 60GB HD at work. Turned out to be that FAT32 has a size limitation. Probally 32GB??


Looks like your going to have to nuke the drive and partitions on the drive. Here at work we use a Wipe Disk utility. I am sure there is a microsoft utility (not that I would trust it) but I am sure there is one.



Tactics

[Xaotic]

The W2K format doesn't format in FAT32 over 32GB by design. FDISK has problems with disks over 64GB where it will register only the amount over 64GB. I agree with Tactics. Start by clearing the partitions. If you want FAT32, create and format a 32GB partition for the OS and apps using the W2K install process, install, then use disk management to setup and format any additional partitions. Here's a link to the limitations of FAT32.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q184006


Partition Magic should be able to convert back to FAT32 from NTFS, but I haven't tried it. If you do try it, make sure to backup any critical files first.

[Mr. Potatoehead]

For Windown 98 you need to go to microsoft site and get a new
version of fdisk, that is why it only sees 12 gig.
The newer version handles larger drives.