OMG Please help with Win XP partition issue FAT32 NTFS
I know that there are other posts about this, but I have not been able to find the answers to my problems 😟
I had the issue that others had with not getting the option to format the bootcamp partition during my XP Pro install. I used the FreeDOS solution to format the drive, but I am now left with an 80gb FAT32 partition which is not really what I wanted. 😟
Reading other posts, resizing the partition does not seem to be an option. I guess that I use Winclone to backup my XP partition, wipe out the partition using Bootcamp, but where do I go from here????
A couple of questions:
1) Can a backup of a FAT32 partition be restored to an NTFS partition?
2) How the bl**dy **** do I format the bootcamp partition as NTFS if I do not get the option of formatting during the XP install and FreeDOS wants to format as FAT32.
By the way if anyone has the answer that involves not having to wipe the FAT32 partition but shrink / reduce it to say 15gb and allow me to create a 65gb NTFS partition - there is a big sloppy kiss waiting!!!! 😉
I was hoping that I could just use something like Partition Magic within my 80gb bootcamp partition to resize the FAT32 then create and format the NTFS partition?
Sorry for babbling and thanks for reading and hopfully ending my pain.
Ian.
I had the issue that others had with not getting the option to format the bootcamp partition during my XP Pro install. I used the FreeDOS solution to format the drive, but I am now left with an 80gb FAT32 partition which is not really what I wanted. 😟
Reading other posts, resizing the partition does not seem to be an option. I guess that I use Winclone to backup my XP partition, wipe out the partition using Bootcamp, but where do I go from here????
A couple of questions:
1) Can a backup of a FAT32 partition be restored to an NTFS partition?
2) How the bl**dy **** do I format the bootcamp partition as NTFS if I do not get the option of formatting during the XP install and FreeDOS wants to format as FAT32.
By the way if anyone has the answer that involves not having to wipe the FAT32 partition but shrink / reduce it to say 15gb and allow me to create a 65gb NTFS partition - there is a big sloppy kiss waiting!!!! 😉
I was hoping that I could just use something like Partition Magic within my 80gb bootcamp partition to resize the FAT32 then create and format the NTFS partition?
Sorry for babbling and thanks for reading and hopfully ending my pain.
Ian.
iMac 3gig, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Also running Toshiba Laptop