XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: mayayana@invalid.nospam   
      
   | >|   
   | >| Unfortunately the free version will only work on partitions up to 8G.   
   | >   
   | >  Yes, but if you have any kind of partitioning software   
   | >it doesn't matter. you can convert and then resize.   
   | >   
   | I have a C partition of about 30G, which is half full, and a D one of   
   | about 113G, of which about 70G is used. Are you suggesting I split these   
   | down into 2 (for C) and 9 (for D) partitions, convert them to FAT (even   
   | assuming I could get Windows XP running after such a thing), and then   
   | combine them back somehow?   
      
     I'm not suggesting anything. It's up to you.   
   I wouldn't try anything without making a current   
   disk image first, if it were me. If I were going to   
   try then I guess I'd move 8 GB from C drive to D   
   temporarily. If you have a 15 GB C drive with XP   
   that means you probably have about 13 GB of   
   data and/or junk. It shouldn't be hard to make   
   room for the conversion. Then you shrink C drive,   
   and then you can enlarge it again after conversion.   
      
     Your D drive is also NTFS? I guess you could just   
   copy that to an external disk, delete D drive, then   
   remake it as FAT32 and copy the data back. There   
   wouldn't be much point in risking conversion for plain   
   data.   
      
     But it's up to you, of course. My only stake in it is   
   that I'd love to hear how it works out if you do it. :)   
      
     I wouldn't normally take a position that one shouldn't   
   pay for shareware, but the price of N2F is ridiculous.   
   The $30 version is apparently only licensed for a   
   single PC. Just getting a license that can be used *only   
   within a single company* is $70!   
      
      This is all making me curious. Microsoft seems to have   
   made NTFS -> FAT32 conversion difficult for the sake of   
   security, yet there is software that claims to do it. Maybe   
   it's not so hard to write such software.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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