Yesterday I installed XP Pro on an 8 GB partition using FAT32.  I chose
FAT32 since I may also install LINUX on this system and figured I format all
of the disk as FAT32.  Today I went to create the extended partition to set
up some logical drives.  I find that XP only allows me the option of NTFS in
the extended partition.  Am I doing something wrong or is that true?   I
suspect I don't really understand the difference between a primary partition
and an extended partition.   XP tells me an OS can only operate out of a
primary partition but I don't see why that forces NTFS on the extended
partition.  Anyway will there be any complications if the primary partition
is FAT32 and the other logical drives (extended partition) are in NTFS?   I
also read that a FAT32 partition can be converted to NTFS, should I do that?


Bob Warasila
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