FAT32 and NTFS on same drive but different partition

[Mark]

I have Chinese Win98 and I also have Window XP Pro so I need to use
Win98. Can FAT32 and NTFS co-exist on the same drive but different
partition? I will be getting a larger drive and I will want to have
Win98 on one partition, XP on another and another partition or two for
Vide (NTFS).

Thanks

 

[Rebecca Chen [MSFT]]

Hi Mark,

Yes, they can in the different partition.

According to my experience, if it is a 40G hard disk, you can assign 5G to
the windows 98 as FAT, the second partition to 10G to XP.

The most important thing is that drive C should be FAT32 instead of NTFS,
or Win98 cannot recognize NTFS and will not startup.

HTH!

Best regards,

Rebecca Chen

MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA


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[Ace Weston]

Yes, you can have all kinds of partitions on a single hard drive. Keep
in mind that win98 will not see your NTFS partition and any data on it
will be accessible only from WinXP. Same for the "Vide" whatever that is.