Linux and Windows XP install

Hello,
I just have some small questions about installing both windows xp, and linux (Fedora core) on the same machine.
I intend to install Fedora on one harddrive, and Win xp on another, and use a third harddrive as a shared drive, that should be accessible to both operating systems. As far as I know, linux can't write to a ntfs filesystem, and win xp can't read or write to ext2 or ext3, but if I format the shared drive as FAT32, it should be readable/writeable from both linux and win xp, right?
Also, as I need to use Fedora's boot loader, if I install Fedora first, and then win xp, will win xp then overwrite Fedora's boot loader?

Thanks in advance,
//Enforce

Ok, thanks for the help.
One thing though, if I need to re-install my WinXP sometime later, then do I have to also re-install Fedora? Or can I just re-install the Fedora bootloader somehow?

You can also use the Windows XP osloader to boot linux. Effectively you make a copy of the linux bootloader MBR bootstrap code into a file (either install it onto another partition and copy it to file or use loopback psuedo partition). Put that file on your windows disk and add an entry to the windows boot.ini file for it. When windows boots it will then ask you whether you want windows or linux, choose linux and the standard linux boot loader will pop up. I have done this with grub and it works like a charm.

I wrote a couple of blog entries about how to do it last year, which you can read here:

<A HREF="http://members.atlasf1.com/david_martin/2004/05/nutshell-continued.html" target="_new">http://members.atlasf1.com/david_martin/2004/05/nutshell-continued.html</A>
<A HREF="http://members.atlasf1.com/david_martin/2004/05/nutshell-part-3.html" target="_new">http://members.atlasf1.com/david_martin/2004/05/nutshell-part-3.html</A>


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