Converting NTFS to FAT32

This is a discussion about Converting NTFS to FAT32 in the Windows Software category; Last time I installed W2K I converted my drive to NTFS and then installed PC Anywhere 9. 0 and W2K refused to start even in safe mode I booted with a win98 boot disk and I could not access my NTFS drive and had to re partition loosing everything What I want to ask is if there is any program that can convert an NTFS ...

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Last time I installed W2K I converted my drive to NTFS and then installed PC Anywhere 9.0 and W2K refused to start even in safe mode
I booted with a win98 boot disk and I could not access my NTFS drive and had to re partition loosing everything
 
What I want to ask is if there is any program that can convert an NTFS drive to FAT32 in MS DOS mode that I can copy onto a CD just in case
 
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There is a tool that will allow Win9x to read NTFS partitions (search will find it) but there is no tool to convert NTFS to FAT (12 16 or 32)
 
 
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No, FAT32 -> NTFS is a oneway road ... but there are programs that'll allow you to read (free) or read/write (not free) on NTFS, available for DOS or Win9x.

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You can convert NTFS back to FAT32 with Partition Magic 5. You just have to use the boot disks that it makes. And remember to defrag the hard drive first or it will take a really long time.

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Pq5 mangled my drive when converting ntfs to fat32. Be careful.

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ooops meant pm5