yeah, don't format the drive. Just run the upgrade installation. After 
it's installed you can convert the drive to NTFS.

*convert* C: */fs:ntfs*

Henry Adams wrote:
> i upgraded my system from windowsME to windowsXP home edition.when i tried to format my local c:drive from fat32,to (ntfs file system) using the quick format option, iget a warning:(formatting will erase all data on this disk).does this mean that i would also lose my OS along with the setting, config,and driver? is their any work around i can take,so i would not have to reinstall windows xp?
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