On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
>> Ahm, why not? If it's the right size, couldn't you go into fdisk or PM
>> and just tag it as a Windows partition, then format it under Windows?
>
> I've never tried that. Using partition magic I'd just delete the ext2
> partition and create a fat32 partition. I suppose you're idea would work
> too, but I'm going on personal experience.
Partition Magic is a fairly cautious program. One might even say
"paranoid". It will frequently require you to explicitly perform destructive
operations. So I suspect it is just a UI design decision that one cannot
change the format of a partition in a single step. I'm not so sure it is a
bad one, either.
The partition table editor (PTEDIT.EXE) PowerQuest includes with Partition
Magic will let you directly change the partition type, but I don't see why
you'd bother. :) Just use PM to delete the old one, and then create the new
one.
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