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Old August 14th 14, 03:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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Default using an old OS on XP

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

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