Hello Russell.

09 Dec 03 17:05, you wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 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.

Linux successfully reads both NTFS v4 and v5 - all you need is a spare
partition where to put the extracted data. Then run a "repair"
install on top of the old OS and it should be bootable and usable.

There are also commercial tools that can perform the conversion in a couple
of mouseclicks.

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

With a good fdisk replacement :) I think Symantec have a freeware tool
called gdisk that can operate on any partition type. Also all the linuxish
tools (sfdisk for example) and the commercial products ... I cant really
remember when i used fdisk the last time - it simply suxx :)

Viktor

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