>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. The only option available to you is using a 3rd party tool like e.g. PartitionMagic (www.powerquest.com). It is a timeconsuming process but does work. However when going from NTFS back to FAT32 (FAT16 is *NO* option) you'll discover that your data will use way more room on the disk ('clustersize' and 'slack' are the keywords to search for to learn the details). So if your 40GB disk is mostly full (e.g. more than 35GB under NTFS) it might very well be that you _can't_ convert it back to FAT32 without prior deleting some files. >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 That's because DOS fdisk is crippled in many ways. Not being able to see NTFS partitions is one of it. Best, Michael -- Vote against SPAM - see http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Michael Gerdau email: mgd@... Windows LUW: Life Under Windows GPG/PGP-keys available on request or at public keyserver