Oooops.... Dual boot file system questions

[JEM]

I have a dual boot with W2K on 'C' and XP Home on 'D'.
(One HD two partitions) Currently, both are FAT 32. I'd
like to convert the XP OS to NTFS. Will this create a
problew with the current dual boot set up?

Thanks.

 

[Cerridwen]

I have a dual boot with W2K on 'C' and XP Home on 'D'.
(One HD two partitions) Currently, both are FAT 32. I'd
like to convert the XP OS to NTFS. Will this create a
problew with the current dual boot set up?

Thanks.

Why on earth should it?! Both are NT based OSes.

 

[JEM]

Yeah, I know, I'm just curious if it will effect the boot
loader (the windows default one). Could be wrong, but I
thought I read a KB article that said you couldn't have a
dual boot with NTFS, or there was some problem with
booting...

 

[Jason Tsang]

If you have NTFS, you can't dual boot to a Win9x/DOS system
Reason: Win9x/Dos don't know what NTFS is. It can't boot from something it
can't read from.

 

[Cerridwen]

If you have NTFS, you can't dual boot to a Win9x/DOS system
Reason: Win9x/Dos don't know what NTFS is. It can't boot from
something it can't read from.

Jason - both are NT based - that's irrelevant.

 

[JEM]

So, I can just convert the partition and have W2K FAT32
and XP Home NTFS with no effect on the boot loader? No
worries....?

 

[Cerridwen]

So, I can just convert the partition and have W2K FAT32
and XP Home NTFS with no effect on the boot loader? No
worries....?

Yes - both can read either file-system. If you were booting with a 9x-based
OS, then, no it wouldn't work.

 

[JEM]

thanks, converted last night.....

-----Original Message-----


Yes - both can read either file-system. If you were booting with a 9x-based
OS, then, no it wouldn't work.


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[Jason Tsang]

The kb article that the OP was referring to was talking about NTFS
limitations.

What I listed is one of the biggest limitations (as you already know)