> I don't seem to beable to find anyway I can revert the drive > back to fat32 whilst its in sitting (slave) in the pentium 4 > = the only option I keep getting is to reformat it to NTFS - > any reference to fat or fat32 is not offered. No version of windows can convert NTFS to FAT32, although it can be done with third party utilities such as Partition Magic from Powerquest. > If I take the HD and place it in the pentium 3 - the pc see's > the drive there when I boot up and it goes thru its > intialization etc - but then once it gets to booting up WIN > ME - it just blinks away and doesn't boot the O/S WinME is based on win95/98 and does not support the NTFS filesystem. > I've tried fdisk after booting from a floppy - but i can't > get to this drive in dos - it just doesn't see it You cannot mount an NTFS filesystem in MS-DOS. There are some third-party 'NTFS-DOS' operating systems around (one is called NTFSDOS, funnily enough, another is called NTFSPRO). These will allow you to mount an NTFS volume with a bootable floppy, but not convert it to FAT32. > can anyone help here ??? I hope I did ;) Dan.