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to: David Drummond
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2003-12-12 16:48:46
subject: m$ crap

Hello David.

11 Dec 03 20:54, you wrote to me:

 CA>>> XP and W2K use NTFSv5, not the older NTFS of WinNT. AFAIK there
 CA>>> _is_ no way to revert back to FAT32 from NTFSv5 other than
 CA>>> reformatting the drive and a complete reinstall.

 RT>> Yeah! how'n the heck do you format a partion that you cannot
 RT>> read, and that WIN95/98's FDISK will not touch.

 DD> Boot from "Tom's Root Disk" and use the fdisk on that to remove the
 DD> partition(s). Boot from Win9whatever and create/format the new
 DD> partition(s).

Hmm ... see reply to Charles,

Russell

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