Windows xp fat32 partition

That 2Gig was a FAT16 limitation. In the mean time, 12 years ago, they came up with FAT That's what the thread is about. Antique advise, may have been true at one time. My solution for the O. FAT32 has a lot of limitations, about the only thing going for it is being able to be recognized by a bunch of different operating systems.

If your boot sector or partition table gets nailed on the 98 drive with XP on board, you've just lost two operatings systems, not one and that happens with FAT systems.

With XP on a second drive, it's an easy recovery to get XP back online. Buy a couple extra for backups. After the OP has solved his problem, he is advised by well intended people to delete all partitions or to buy a second hard drive. Maybe we could read more than the 1st and the last posts? Good point man! You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here.

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Formatting a partition erases all data on the partition, but a partition that is formatted with NTFS rather than converted from FAT or FAT32 will have less fragmentation and better performance.

You can also convert a partition after setup by using Convert. For more information about Convert. In the command window, enter help convert. Note: If your computer must sometimes run an earlier Windows operating system and also sometimes run Windows or XP in other words, dual- or multi-boot between the multiple versions , then in this case you must have a FAT or FAT32 partition as the primary or startup partition on the hard disk.

This is because earlier operating systems, with one exception, can't access a partition if it uses the latest version of NTFS. That one exception is Windows NT version 4. Windows NT 4. If you're multi-booting between Windows or XP and a non-Windows operating system e. Consult the documentation for those non-Windows operating systems' boot loaders for details. Why do I care and why are you showing me this anyway?

What did Cloudeight choose? Ok, that is allot of information! It offers better reliability, security, and support for hard disks over 32 gigabytes. If you want to multiboot with an older version of Windows, choose FAT Be sure to back up any files you want to save, such as your documents, saved files, pictures, etc.