On 29-Mar-99 Ben Messinger wrote: >> Nick Rudd wrote: >> >> yes i have only windows 98 installed on my computer. I was wondering >> if there was any way that i could convert FAT 32 back into FAT16 >> without reinstalling windows. >> >> Chris Smith > > > Partition Magic will convert from fat16 to fat32 or vice-versa. It does > it with a gui and is quite easy and in my experience safe. I have > converted a partition to fat32 and then back to fat16 at a later date > with no problems. > > One responder asked why would you not want to leave it fat32. My > experience is that lilo will not work on the mbr of a fat32 drive, and > also a fat32 drive is slower than the same drive with fat16. But that > doesn't really matter to me anymore - now _all_ my partitions are ext2 > <g>.
Lilo work well with fat32 because he dont need to handle the fat32 partition and because linux is installed on a ext2. fat32 dont change the mbr, just the partition table and the fat of the partition. I use this setup from osr2 (win95). Benoit Joly
