On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:04, eric huff wrote:
> > > Hi, i have some partitions with NTFS and i am going to change to
> > > FAT32. How can i do it under Linux console?
> >
> > cp -a the data into another partition, then use mkfs to reformat the
> > partition to fat32, then mv -a the data back in.
> 
> On my machine, i have one ntfs partition with all of WinXP on it.  If i did 
> what's suggested above, would it preserve the bootability, etc, of that 
> partition?
> 
> Thanks,
> eric
> 

nope -- for that you'd want to investigate an XP-native conversion tool.
-- 
Jack Coates
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