Fat32 formating from within WinXP Pro?

[RichTJ99]

Hi all,

I have a USB hard drive that is formatted in NTFS & its mostly great but when I go to backup data on my parents Win98 PC, I cant use my USB HD for the task.

How do I go about formatting an external Hard drive that is currently formatted in NTFS & changing it to Fat32.

There is no data on the drive that needs to be saved. I can scrap the whole thing.

Thanks,

Rich

[N1K]

You can convert FAT32 to NTFS without data loss but you can't convert NTFS to FAT32 without loosing all your data on that partition/disk...

And offcourse you can't access an NTFS partition from Win98 system which is using FAT32 fs....