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NT to 98

  • 24-09-2003 3:30pm
    #1
    Morpheus
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    Hi,

    Ive an old PC at home, im looking to uninstall NT off it and to install windows 98 ONTO it....

    I know there are NTFS issues I have to convert to FAT 32 or something?

    anyone have any steps i should follow??? anyway to convert without losing all the data on the drive???

    please help, im desperate, i HATE the NT system, cant play games etc...


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  • #2
    jim_bob
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    afaik you can use partition magic 6 or 7 to do that


  • #3
    Red Alert
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    NT = Stable, 98 = Anything but


  • #4
    daveg
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    Originally posted by Morphéus
    Hi,

    Ive an old PC at home, im looking to uninstall NT off it and to install windows 98 ONTO it....

    I know there are NTFS issues I have to convert to FAT 32 or something?

    anyone have any steps i should follow??? anyway to convert without losing all the data on the drive???

    please help, im desperate, i HATE the NT system, cant play games etc...

    Have you got a copy of 2000 or XP? Both use NTFS.

    Otherwise boot into dos (boot Cd or floppy). Go into FDISK and you will have several options. One is to remove a "non-DOS" partition. Use that one. Once the NTFS partition is removed, then use FDISK to create, make active and format a DOS partition (FAT 32).


  • #5
    whosurpaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    Originally posted by daveg
    Have you got a copy of 2000 or XP? Both use NTFS.

    Otherwise boot into dos (boot Cd or floppy). Go into FDISK and you will have several options. One is to remove a "non-DOS" partition. Use that one. Once the NTFS partition is removed, then use FDISK to create, make active and format a DOS partition (FAT 32).



    em wont this delete the data on the partition??????


  • #6
    BoB_BoT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭BoB_BoT


    Originally posted by whosurpaddy
    em wont this delete the data on the partition??????

    indeed it will

    you're kinda stuck here, i think partition magic/similar program gives support to format a partition as fat32. so if you create some space on your hard drive as fat32, transfer what you need to keep on to the fat 32 partition, then format the ntfs partiton using fdisk and create a fat 32 partition, install win98 and you should be set.

    Gl, Rob


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