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You're welcome, glad to have helped.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Cajun Clickers of Louisiana" <CajunClickers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:utQlYZgsEHA.3788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> The info worked well, new 60G hd , partitioned / 3 x 20 with Fat32 on the
> 98
> & ME and XP and server2000 did the rest into NTFS.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jacque Dupre
> New Orleans
> Louisiana
>
> CajunClickers@hotmail.com
> www.clickers.org
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OcgycTdsEHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Partition any way you like as far as size goes, but to boot those systems
>> the partition used to house the boot files (known in WinXP as the system
>> partition, but commonly referred to as the boot partition) must use the
>> FAT32 file system in order to boot Win98/ME. Also keep in mind that
> WinXP's
>> drive mangement utility can only work with FAT32 partitions up to 32GB.
>> It
>> will use larger ones, but they must be created and formatted with a
>> different partitioning tool. The partition that actually houses the WinXP
>> system folders may be NTFS, but you will not be able to read that
> partition
>> from the Win98/ME systems. Any partition that houses information that is
> to
>> be shared amongst the operating systems must also be in FAT32, as
>> Win98/ME
>> cannot read an NTFS partition on a local system (at least not without
> third
>> party help).
>>
>> How you partition is another story. If starting from scratch, you can do
>> this with fdisk and the WinXP partitioning faculty. If some of the
>> systems
>> are already installed, or you want to shrink/change/add partitions to an
>> existing drive with no free space available you will have to use a third
>> party partitioning utility. Please post back with what you currently have
>> for proper guidance.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Cajun Clickers of Louisiana" <CajunClickers@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:uNpCTsYsEHA.3508@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> > What are the various methods to have a 60 Gig HD partitioned into 3 /
>> > 20
>> > Gig
>> > Partitions with a multi boot of XP and ME or XP and 98 or XP with ME &
> 98?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> > Jacque Dupre
>> > New Orleans
>> > Louisiana
>> >
>> > CajunClickers@hotmail.com
>> > www.clickers.org
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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