On 8/14/2014 9:04 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:33:29 -0400, "Bill Cunningham"
wrote:


"BillW50" wrote in message
...

XP install should let you use either FAT or NTFS as long as the partition
is 32GB or smaller if I recall correctly. Any larger and it will only
install using NTFS. There are utilities that will convert from NTFS to
FAT32 anyway, so no big deal. And if you install Windows 98SE first,
dualboot should work just fine.

Humm. I have one partiion about 200GB. Maybe that's it then. And does
this 32G or less partition have to be at the beginning on the drive? Or can
it be the 2nd or 3rd primary partition?

The message you are replying to is *not* correct. XP cannot *create* a
FAT32 partition larger than 32GB.

That is what I said.

But it will happily use one if it was created by other software.

But that wasn't Bill's question. Bill's question was XP install will
only allow formatting with NTFS. This is true if the partition is larger
than 32GB.

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Bill
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