Hi Juan,

Not with the file tools in Vista. You can convert from NTFS to FAT32, but
not the other way around. If you just want to shrink/alter a FAT32 volume,
there are plenty of third party drive tools that will do this like BootIT NG
and Paragon.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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"Juan" <Juan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> Is it possible to convert a FAT32 disk into NTFS, shrink it, and then
> convert it back to FAT32?
>
> "Paul Randall" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:e5z1aIY9JHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This line is from the Help files for Disk Manager:
>> >
>> > "You can only shrink basic volumes that have no file system or use the
>> > NTFS file system."
>>
>> Thanks. Now we know for sure.
>>
>> -Paul Randall
>>
>>
>>