DeathAbyss Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 My laptop's C:\ is ntfs, and vista is installed on it. How do I change it to fat without losing vista? Or, can I format the newly created partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysick Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Use partition magic (some will say gparted will work) but when in windows i always used partition magic, and create a fat partition , then fire up the leopard disk and go to disk utility and format it to mac journaled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0N12 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 ok log into vista, click start and in the search bar type computer management and a list should pop up hit disk management and click on your hard drive and it should say shrink volume it also depends how big is your hard drive well anyways put in the amount you want for example 100,000 mb equal to 100 gigs ten when your done there should be a unallocated space and format to w/e you want fat or ntsc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsound Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Why would you ever want to use FAT (FAT32)? NTFS is better in all ways, and you can even mount it read/write in OS X using NTFS-3G for Mac OS X. You can't "convert" an NTFS partition to FAT, or at least I don't know any utility that does so. I'm not even sure Vista can be installed on a FAT partition, but I haven't tried... it certainly would lower the security of the entire operating system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysick Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 i always did my installs by making a partition and formatting it to fat32, leopard always picked it up without issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0N12 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 unsound is right tho, NTSC is way better in all ways then FAT if you want FAT because you want MAC OS X, i used NTSC and it worked perfectly fine im running on it right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAbyss Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 Oh! I thought that you needed FAT for installing leopard >> ..the installation worked perfectly for my desktop, but it didn't work on my laptop so I assumed it was because my hd was in different format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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