If you are concerned about the security of your system (someone breaking
into it from outside), then by all means, use NTFS.  If not, then Fat32 is
fine.  If you go with NTFS you can always use the XP CD to reformat the disk
back to Fat32 if you want.

One physical hard drive is partitioned into the primary partition (where
your O/S goes and your computer primarily boots from) and then you create an
extended partition.  In the extended partition you can create several
logical drives and set the size of each one.  I prefer to set up my
partitions in fdisk, and then format them during the XP setup when it
displays the drives/partition information and asks where you want to install
the O/S.

----- Original Message -----
From: "bobwarasila" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:12 PM
Subject: Partition question again


> 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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