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Ste- · 2003-10-20 18:57:26

Will I have to reformatt before doing this ? I presume that Partition magic will do this ?

20-10-2003 06:57PM

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Will I have to reformatt before doing this ?
I presume that Partition magic will do this ?

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#2 20-10-2003 07:03PM

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Originally posted by Ste-
I presume that Partition magic will do this ?

You presume correctly, young Jedi.

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#3 20-10-2003 07:04PM

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Cheers just wanted to make sure before going ahead and starting it.

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#4 20-10-2003 09:14PM

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Ask question one may I?

Why do ya wanna downgrade filesystem?

It is what it's.

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#5 20-10-2003 10:01PM

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So when I install Linux it will write onto the windows partition.

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#6 21-10-2003 01:08PM

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Cant ya not just run the dos command to convert?

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#7 21-10-2003 01:54PM

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It will only convert from FAT32 > NTFS, it won't work the other way. Going back to FAT32 is not nearly as easy and problem free, so be sure to backup anything important. I would just reformatt and reinstall.

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#8 21-10-2003 04:02PM

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Thanks MrPink I probably won't bother for a while, I didn't wanna do it and lose everything as is the norm.

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