Win 98: Fat 16 to Fat 32 won't Convert..

[chuckiechan]

I am trying to convert to fat 32 and am having no success. I have a WD 6.4G Hd partitioned X3 with Fat32. I got system resources as high as 97%, virtual memory (on C-the target drive) at 585 Mg, no luck. It goes through it's DOS thing, then goes back to Windows and says I don't have enough resourses available to convert. I unchecked all of the config & auto exe boxes.
I have a 6.4 w.d. Hdd,
128 Mg SDRAM
Win 98
Amd 350
Where do I go from here??
P.S. The whole purpose of this exercise is to mirror on to my new 18G IBM HDD.in the fat 32 format.
Thanks in advance...

[Vampiel]

Goto control panel, click on add/remove programs then goto windows setup, click on system tools, insert win98 disk and install drive converter (fat32) then goto start menu/programs/accessories/systemtools/drive converter. It shouldnt run DOS at all for the conversion, also if you have any bad sectors on the HD it wont convert.

[chuckiechan]

I've tried everything I can think of, including re-installing windows. The last de-frag did'nt show any bad clusters.

Can I do a disk copy from my old fat 16 to my new fat 32?

I have some pretty fat files, so I don't want to back up via floppy..

Best course of action??
y

[Vampiel]

Just copy everything to your new HD and it will automatically write it in FAT32 on the 18giGer as long as it is fat32. You also mught wanna try a scandisk/thourough on the old HD just to check. Sometimes bad sectors sneak by defrag.

[chuckiechan]

Vampiel..If I understand you correctly, My old HDD is FAT 16, but I can copy it to my Fat 32 Hdd. So it isn't necessary to convert my old one to Fat 32. Fat 16 will write to fat 32 ok.

[bobcat]

I had the same problem. Figured that MS great Fat converter didn't like partitions that small to convert. Used Partition Magic /forum/smile.gif

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

Ummmmm if I'm not mistaken, when you install Win98 doesn't it automatically convert the system to FAT32? Mine does.

Or am i missing something here?

Jim


[This message has been edited by NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech (edited 10-21-1999).]

[chuckiechan]

Win 98 gives you the option at set-up, I decided to stay at FAT 16 for no real good reason.
I guess I can't create the space to do the convert. IBM says their utility will copy from a fat 16 drive to a Fat 32 drive using some dos jive, so I will probably just go for it this week end. I just don't want to end up with drive letters C thru W or something...!!

Is there a site for a test/evaluation version of partition magic or equal?