Partitioning Hard-drive

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Hello,

I want to create two partitions on my hard drive: one for Win98SE, one for WinXP. Will the WinXP NTFS install on a FAT or FAT32 partition? I don't need another WinXP partition to be accessible to other operating systems but I may have to transfer files between the partitions. Is it possible to transfer files between partitions using different FATs? Is it even possible to have partitions with different FATs on a single hard drive?

Sincerely,

Kirby
 
WindowsXP will see and be able to access the FAT32 partition even if it's
own partition is NTFS.

Windows98 will not be able to see, nor access the NTFS partition.

Cari
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Kirby said:
Hello,

I want to create two partitions on my hard drive: one for Win98SE, one for
Click to expand...
WinXP. Will the WinXP NTFS install on a FAT or FAT32 partition? I don't
need another WinXP partition to be accessible to other operating systems but
I may have to transfer files between the partitions. Is it possible to
transfer files between partitions using different FATs? Is it even possible
to have partitions with different FATs on a single hard drive?
 
NTFS will not install on a FATx partition. You will need to create a new
partition and format it to NTFS. Or you can take a FATx partition and
convert it to NTFS (one way only).

Y.
Kirby said:
Hello,

I want to create two partitions on my hard drive: one for Win98SE, one for
Click to expand...
WinXP. Will the WinXP NTFS install on a FAT or FAT32 partition? I don't
need another WinXP partition to be accessible to other operating systems but
I may have to transfer files between the partitions. Is it possible to
transfer files between partitions using different FATs? Is it even possible
to have partitions with different FATs on a single hard drive?
 
XP isnt created in ntfs fs,FAT32 will work.You can do
what you want,boot from xp cd,recovery,type:DiskPart /?
Will get you into partitioning with help.Press enter key
for password,you should read,#255867 also go to TechNet
at microsoft.com,search,type:DiskPart This and related
info will be available.
-----Original Message-----
Hello,

I want to create two partitions on my hard drive: one for
Click to expand...
Win98SE, one for WinXP. Will the WinXP NTFS install on a
FAT or FAT32 partition? I don't need another WinXP
partition to be accessible to other operating systems but
I may have to transfer files between the partitions. Is
it possible to transfer files between partitions using
different FATs? Is it even possible to have partitions
with different FATs on a single hard drive?
 
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