Partition an active NTFS drive to make a FAT32 bit.

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  1. compact

    compact Regular member

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    Hi

    I have an external hard drive with lots of music and movies on formatted as NTFS

    I am looking to get a Divx DVD player with USB, so I can stop burning discs and hook up the hard drive and play the movies easily.

    After lots and lots of searching and checking forums etc, I have decided on the Philips DVP5980.

    To play the movies off the hard drive it has to be in FAT32.

    Can I create a FAT32 partition on the NTFS hard drive and make it the primary partition without loosing any data (took me along time to get the music and movies on there)...

    Cheers
     
    compact, Aug 5, 2007
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  2. vtowner

    vtowner Regular member

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    Edited because i am a retard.
     
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  3. Auslander

    Auslander Senior member

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    vtowner, reading comprehension ftw.
    compact: you can convert from fat32 to ntfs without losing data (risky), however you can't convert back without losing data.

    just buy another hard drive and copy your information over. remember, no file larger than 4 gigs (i believe that's the limit for fat32) will work.
     
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    compact Regular member

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    i thought that might be the case.

    might just see about getting a cheap 2gb Usb stick and copy films when I want to watch..
     
    compact, Aug 8, 2007
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    Partition Magic with convert back. I know there are some size limitations. You will have to read the fine print for the details.
     
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    Partition magic 8.0 will do the job as above poster stated,as for size when using ghost to image to a larger hdd it created a 25GB FAT32 partition which is where the recovery partition is held so part magic will be able to create a large FAT32 partition for you of at least up to 25GB tho i suspect it can go much higher,the only other partition tool worth mentioning is acronis all the others are too far behind in development
     
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