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by unclegarbage 1 view

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I have a 40gb hard drive and I have set it 50/50 and installed windows-98 on the primary side of the drive, then when I go to install windows-xp on the extended drive. Should I use FAT or NTFS for the xp, also should I have any conflicts between them. I have a hard drive with win98 and win2000pro and I have no problems out of it. On the hard drive with win98 and winxp the first time I did the win98 would not load the kernal system. Any help or ideas would be great.

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by dmiles

1)Create Win98 and WINNT boot disk
Using FDISK,insert the win98 boot disk, install Win98 on a Fat partition and then format win 98 partition after win 98 format proceed to next step

2)Use the NT boot disk,use FDISK and use FAT32 file system,format the partition

Windows 98 will not recognize the NTFS and you should be able to convert the fat partition after installing XP

by thechas

The choice of FAT32 vs ntsf depends on how you plan to use the system.

If you want to be able to access the XP partition and files from W98, you must format the partition to fat32.

If you want the XP partition to be nearly in-accessible from W98, or the extra security and stability of ntsf, then format it ntsf.

If you start out formatted fat 32, you can convert the XP partition to ntsf later if you desire.

Note: Microsoft does not support converting back to fat32 from ntsf. 3rd party utilities such as Partition Magic doe have this function.

by shanghai sam

Until you're finished with the installation and satisifed that everything is running the way you want it to, you're going to be better off using fat32. You can always convert to NTFS afterwards using the command
convert /fs:ntfs /v

Obviously fat32 is going to the faster choice, but if you're going to use something like IIS, you're going to be better off going with NTFS for the security.

You have 98 installed already, so all you should have to do at this point is to start setup for XP(boot disks, booting to CD, runnning winnt from the i386 directory) and install on the other partition and it'll build your boot.ini from there.

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by unclegarbage

the best answer was from userdeleted, this was thUntil you're finished with the installation and satisifed that everything is running the way you want it to, you're going to be better off using fat32. You can always convert to NTFS afterwards usingthe command
convert /fs:ntfs /v

Obviously fat32 is going to the faster choice, but if you're going to use something like IIS, you're going to be better off going with NTFS for the security.

You have 98 installed already, so all you should have to do at this point is to start setup for XP (boot disks, booting to CD, runnning winnt from the i386 directory) and install on the other partition and it'll build your boot.ini from there.

e answer and the best one, good choice

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