getting onto a fat32 hdd from a ntfs system

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Hassal
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Post by Hassal »

opps i put some important stuff on my spare hdd while i reinstalled and made the change to windows 2000. any way i cant get at my spare hdd do i have to put it in some1 elses comp and get at my stuff that way?

Michael-Corleone
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Kindred
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Post by Kindred »

Uggh I am not sure how that is going to work.  I only can think of one suggestion at this time(later when I am more awake maybe I can come up with something better).  First if you dont have to much installed since upgrading or you can backup reformat and go back to a FAT32 OS to retrieve what you need, or you can dual boot OS's and use WINXP I know that it is capable of accessing info from both types of FAT's.  This will/should work,  due to the fact that I have a 20GB drive that is NFTS and a 60GB that is FAT32 on XP Pro.

Hassal
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Post by Hassal »


hmm ill wait till i can put my spare hdd in a m8s comp.


 


lol my irc was on it and i cant be assed to download it again :)


 


on a completely different note does any1 have a serial number for office 2000? or mebe links to where i might find 1


Kindred
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Post by Kindred »


hmm ill wait till i can put my spare hdd in a m8s comp.

 


lol my irc was on it and i cant be assed to download it again :)


 


on a completely different note does any1 have a serial number for office 2000? or mebe links to where i might find 1



I knows where ya can be getting something better.  PM me for more.


Hassal
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Post by Hassal »

ok i found one for it. its office 2000 premium

nimec
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Post by nimec »


shouldnt win2k be able to read a fat32 partition?  there should be atleast a way to change the filesystem format from fat32-ntfs without losing any info.  Or, can 2k not even see the HD at all?


 


I have never used win2k so I dont know, but if you cannot see the harddrive at all in windows, try looking for a program on the internet to convert the filesystem, if 2k doesnt have one.


Jusander
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Post by Jusander »

I use Win2k Pro and it is able to read both NTFS and FAT32 file systems. Your problem lies somewhere else.

nimec
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Post by nimec »

get partition magic, and if the problem is that windows cant read the fat32 partition, i think partition magic would let you convert it to ntfs.

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