Wtf? Hard drive went from Fat32 to Ntfs

[n8236]

Something strange just happened.

I bought an ext. HD a month ago, had it split equally among two partitions. One Extended Journal (backup purposes) and the remaining Fat32 (as storage).

I don't know what happened, but suddenly I find myself not being able to write onto the Fat32 partition with read only permission. And the same thing has happened to my Bootcamp partition on my MBP's hard drive.

Help is appreciated, thanks

 

[CanadaRAM]

Well, whatever happened it's NOT a spontaneous reformatting of the drive to NTFS. How have you determined it's NTFS, other than circumstantially by not being able to write?

There is a FAT32 to NTFS one-way conversion utility called CONVERT.EXE, however this would have to be run on purpose, from withing Windows.

Have you done Repair Permissions in Disk Utility already?

 

[treblah]

I don't know what happened, but suddenly I find myself not being able to write onto the Fat32 partition with read only permission. And the same thing has happened to my Bootcamp partition on my MBP's hard drive.

Did you install Vista on the BC partition?

 

[n8236]

My bootcamp partition is running XP.

I'm pretty certain I had those partitions to be Fat32 because I needed them to be written into. Those Fat32 partitions used to be named, but now they're called "untitled." I'm trying to recall what I did.