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to: Russell Tiedt
from: David Drummond
date: 2003-12-11 20:54:00
subject: m$ crap

Al salaam a'alaykum Russell

09 Dec 03 17:05, Russell Tiedt 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.

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

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

Regards,
David

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