Re: Use of FAT32 with WXP


"Jerome H. Fine" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim Carlock wrote:


Also, can anyone please confirm that they have or are running a FAT32 file
system
under WXP?

FWIW, I have a smaller drive, partitioned with three equal 9.52gig
partitions all using FAT32. However, WinXP does not boot from this
drive, it boots from a much larger NTFS partition on a different
drive.

I think WinXP only converts a FAT32 partition to NTFS if you give
it permission to. IIRC, WinXP asked me if I wanted to convert
the three partitions and I said no.

Ben

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