John said:
yes XP Home can be formatted with NTFS, you can convert fat to NTFS without
loss of data but doing it from NTFS to Fat will lose all data,
Hold on a minute! XP does not come with any way to convert an NTFS
partition to FAT32, but that doesn't mean that it can't be done.
Things like Partition Magic and others of that ilk can do it with no
problem. You will *not* lose all data. You will lose anything stored
in Alternate Data Streams
(
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/Streams.html). That's mostly
descriptive information, the stuff that pops up when you right-click a
file, choose "Properties", then click the "Summary" tab. And you'll
lose the permissions you've set on files. That kind of thing is
supported in NTFS, not FAT32. But the files themselves will survive.