XP Home & 98se dual boot

[vanvock]

Hi, I recently installed Xp on a second drive as NTFS & would like to try it as FAT32 to make it easy to move things from the 98 disk to it. Is it possible to change the file system type without re-formatting & re-installing? If no can I format the Xp drive with F-Disk on the 98 boot floppy or can I do it with the XP CD? Would this create problems with 98 "seeing" the XP install? Thanks for any pointers.

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

The only way I know of to go from NTFS->FAT is a reinstall and complete format, as long as you don't go putting 98 on the same drive then the easiest way is using the XP cd and telling it to format as fat.

[glc]

XP cannot create FAT32 partitions larger than 32gb - you will have to set it up with 98 first if you need that.

That said, I'd really recommend you install XP on NTFS - and if you need a common partition for both OS's, make a dedicated FAT32 partition for the common data.

How about this? Use Partition Magic to shrink the existing XP partition to a reasonable size, then make the rest of the drive a common FAT32 partition.

You can move stuff now - if you are booted into XP.