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yes that does help alot and thank you very much to everyone who has posted. I
will try to install on my D:/ drive and hopefully it will convert it. if not
i will go the other route and enter it manually.
IE; Even if you installed XP onto a FAT32 partition it is possible to
convert
> the XP partition to NTFS without losing data etc. With XP running simply at
> the rum prompt type "cmd" then at the C: prompt type " convert x:/fs:ntfs.
> Substitute the x: for your partition letter that holds your XP operating
> system. It will inform you the conversion with be executed at reboot. The
> files system of the xp partition will be converted to ntfs. Thanks Again i will post tomorrow and let you know how it went.
"Linden" wrote:
> Steve you have Win98 with 4 partitions so if you wish to install XP onto one
> of them and set it to NTFS there are a number of ways of addressing this.
> Also you were concerned about having to reformat the whole drive if things
> go wrong. As long as you install XP on a seperate partition (which is the
> correct approach) even if the install was to go pear shaped that partition
> can be re formatted independent of the others preserving your Win98 setup.
>
> One way would be to install XP, during the install your prompted for the
> destination partition and whether you wish to format to FAT32/NTFS. NTFS is
> the obvious choice. Make sure you select the right partition not your Win98
> one.
>
> Even if you installed XP onto a FAT32 partition it is possible to convert
> the XP partition to NTFS without losing data etc. With XP running simply at
> the rum prompt type "cmd" then at the C: prompt type " convert x:/fs:ntfs.
> Substitute the x: for your partition letter that holds your XP operating
> system. It will inform you the conversion with be executed at reboot. The
> files system of the xp partition will be converted to ntfs.
>
> Additionally you can use third party software like PartitionMagic to format
> partitions to FAT32/NTFS etc. Be aware what Andrew E said Win 98 has no
> understanding of ntfs and any ntfs partitions will be invisible if you boot
> to Win98. XP however, can see the FAT32 ones.
>
> The key to booting multi operating systems is to place them on seperate
> partitions and to install them in order of evolution i.e install the
> earliest ones first. In your case install Win98 first then XP. If you
> install XP then Win98 on the second one youd have problems.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Linden
>
>
> "Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FA929B51-42BE-4162-B12F-E9C3AD335085@microsoft.com...
> > But if i allready have win98 installed and i have an 80gb hard drive with
> > 4
> > partitions allready. how can i change my D:/ drive to NTFS? and after i
> > have
> > changed it will there be any complications acciated with it. I guess what
> > im
> > saying is i dont want to get into it and then have a problem with the
> > install
> > and have to format the whole drive. Because i have alot of info that for
> > some
> > reason i cant backup on win98. i have tried and it keeps saying that i
> > have
> > used all the resources for this drive.
> >
> > "Andrew E." wrote:
> >
> >> You can have the two os installed on seperate partitions and use each 1
> >> at
> >> a time,
> >> but the two running at the same time isnt possible,xp uses ntfs file
> >> system,98
> >> uses FAT32,FAT32 cannot ever read ntfs,although ntfs(xp)can read
> >> FAT32.To
> >> use both,upgrade 98 to xp,then one should convert to ntfs,besides all
> >> that,xp
> >> wouldnt use or want to use 98.
> >>
> >> "Steve" wrote:
> >>
> >> > i Post a question the other day. I was able to get some help but need
> >> > further
> >> > assistance. here is the thread i posted could some one please help me
> >> > out? I
> >> > dont want to start to implement this without knowing all the facts
> >> > first.
> >> >
> >> >
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