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First post, by C0deHunter

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Hello all,
I am wondering if I can upgrade my existing Win95 (RTM, installed off of floppies) that is formatted in FAT16 into FAT32.

The reason that I am trying to do this is the following:

-Win95 is on a master IDE
-I have secondary hard drive (games) that is on secondary IDE, BUT I would love to have FAT32, and use a LARGER hard drive to store more games on it, and be able to have my Win95 to 'see' the larger capacity drive.

Your insights are really appreciated!

PIII-800E | Abit BH-6 | GeForce FX 5200 | 64MB SD-RAM PC100 | AWE64 Gold | Sound Canvas 55 MKII | SoftMPU | 16GBGB Transcend CF as C:\ and 64GB Transcend CF D:\ (Games) | OS: MS-DOS 7.1-Win98SE-WinME-Win2K Pro (multi-OS menu Using System Commander 2K)

Reply 2 of 2, by schmatzler

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I recently did that on Windows 95C.

Microsoft made a conversion tool (cvt.exe) that supposedly comes with Windows 98, and can also be used to convert Win 95 partitions.

Instructions are here:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jeacocke/fat16to.htm

"Windows 98's natural state is locked up"