Win XP Hard Drive troubles! Need help!!

[HereticPB]

Ok I got Winxp. Today my system screwed up on NTFS and I got it finally back up using fat32 good ol fat32. Anyhow, I had to convert my C drive to NTFS to access my data on my second drive D that uses NTFS. Got my data off cleaned the second drive D formated the D drive back to fat32.

Now here is the problem I hate NTFS with a passion and want to convert my main drive back to fat32. I have partition magic 7 and it will not let me convert the C drive back to fat32. Is there a way to convert it back? Do I have to get the newer version of Partition magic? :cry2:

Any help very very much appreciated please respond quickly!

[brudaman]

http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1820

[HereticPB]

As I thought the PR machine is rolling strong.

[=NukeBlaze=]

Personally, I would keep it as NTFS for your main and format the other drive as NTFS as well.

Why hate NTFS?

[HereticPB]

It is slow and uses to much HD space. Anyhow I got it fixed Fat32 with a 160GB hd.

I love the Western Digital Data Life Guard tools let me get by that false limit that MS set in their tools.

[MrX]

Man NTFS kicks soooo much ass.

[HereticPB]

I don't need security and clunkyness I need speed.

[=NukeBlaze=]

Speed? There should not be a naegitive impact in speed. In fact, there should be a slight boost in the fact the data is better managed across the platter, which in turn calls for fewer defragments of the HDD.

I have used both and have never noticed a mentionable diffrence in speed.

[HereticPB]

There is and I'm tired of XP screwing up on NTFS and I can't get back to dos to fix it.

[=NukeBlaze=]

^ That is why you boot from the Windows XP CD and go to its command prompt mode versus a boot from a windows 9x system floppy.