[Glastonbury] NTFS -> FAT32

[Alistair Parsons]

coming from a windows background, i would tend to remove the NTFS using 
a mandrake install CD, then create the FAt32 using win98 fdisk from a 
boot disk

try bootdisk.com

thats about as commandline as we get nowadays with windows


what a shock is is to to go from translucent green tint to a windows Dos 
Prompt

Al



tim hall wrote:

>I'm having enormous problems trying to write a FAT32 filesystem to a 20G HD 
>that used to have NTFS on it. I think I successfully wiped it using a 
>combination of fdisk/cfdisk and then just writing (dd) a whole bunch of zeros 
>into the start of the drive. However, if I now try mkfs.vfat I'm told that 
>I'm trying to create too large a file system, even if I break it down to two 
>10G partitions. Any suggestions?
>
>I need to dump about 14G of archive stuff on it (mostly Windows generated) and 
>be able to read it under both WinXP and Debian.
>
>cheers
>
>tim hall
>http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
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