Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:28:57 -0400 Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well SuSE 9.3 doesn't handle it gracefully. I wouldn't be going through this grief if it did. I am trying to get my user data /home archived onto the usb disk so I can install a new distro. One of these days I can go

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. As usual, I'm going to ask: Why are you doing this? What

RE: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-21 Thread Labitt, Bruce
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:49 AM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:28:57 -0400 Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well SuSE 9.3 doesn't handle it gracefully. I wouldn't be going

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:28:57 -0400 Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well SuSE 9.3 doesn't handle it gracefully. I wouldn't be going through this grief if it did. I am trying to get my user data /home archived

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? (You don't have to live w/ FAT)

2008-04-21 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I would be interested in hearing if anyone has had any luck with this driver as I loaded it on someone's laptop a couple weeks ago and followed the instructions for mounting and when all was said and done, writing was still not working. Regards, Jeff On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Coleman

Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. One could use mkdosfs, but the documentation indicates that the disk won't be bootable. I think it should be possible in fdisk, however, I'm not sure which of the million format options available is FAT32. It looks like the

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. As usual, I'm going to ask: Why are you doing this? What are you trying to accomplish? :-) One could use mkdosfs, but the documentation indicates that

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked around for this and I see a way or two to do this. As usual, I'm going to ask: Why are you doing this? What are you trying to accomplish? :-) Now that I think about this,

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read and write to for the WinXP machines that I have to live with and with linux. Ah, then

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read and write to for the WinXP machines

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? (You don't have to live w/ FAT)

2008-04-20 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read and write to for the WinXP machines

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread michael miller
When I was setting up this computer to dual boot Win XP and FC8 I initially thought that I would have to convert the hard drive with my win xp files from ntfs to fat32 in order to have them accessible both to linux and win xp. I quickly found out that fc8 has no trouble reading and writing ntfs

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread Bruce Labitt
Well SuSE 9.3 doesn't handle it gracefully. I wouldn't be going through this grief if it did. I am trying to get my user data /home archived onto the usb disk so I can install a new distro. One of these days I can go doze free, but my current employment doesn't yet offer that opportunity. :)