Re: FAT32

["Jeff Hogg" <tastin catchnet net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jie Zou <jzou cisunix unh edu>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:03 PM
Subject: FAT32


>
>Hi All,
>
>I have a question about the FAT32. When I buy laptop, it has FAT32
>originally. When I used fdisk to partiton, it became FAT16 and I can't get
>more 2Gb for primary dos. How could I get FAT32 back?
>
>
You need to use the windows fdisk utility to create paritions for windows.
It's possible to do otherwise, but why?  To recover from the loss of the
fat32, you would have to back up whatever data is on the fat16 partition,
and then wipe out that partition.  Then you could create a fat32 partition
and put the data back in.  I'm guessing that you are using win98 and redhat
linux on the same laptop?  You need to give us a bit more info to
successfully help you.

Jeff Hogg