Thanks for info and a good point about NTFS, hadn't
thought of that! I'll play safe with a second drive
for XP in FAT32 then files can be transferred both
ways if required.
Rick
--- "N. Thomas" wrote:
> In Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP: NTLDR
> and BOOT.INI form
> the Windows NT bootloader system. This system can
> accomodate multiple
> installations of Windows and boot to the appropriate
> OS on multiple
> partitons and drives over IDE or SCSI
> simultaneously.
>
> NTDLR is the bootstrap loader (similar to OS2LDR).
> It reads the
> BOOT.INI configuration file and displays a menu on
> bootup. If only
> one OS is configured the menu does not appear.
>
> When you install Windows XP, Setup automatically can
> add Windows 98
> into the BOOT.INI file, if you choose to keep the
> installation and
> create a new install of Windows XP.
>
> When you run SETUP, just tell Windows XP which
> partition or drive it
> will be installed to and SETUP will configure the
> rest. NOTE: Windows
> 98 can't read NTFS, if you install Windows XP on an
> NTFS partition,
> you will only be able to copy files across from
> Windows XP. Windows
> 98 will only see its own partition and assign no
> drive letter to the
> other drive. (Drive letters represent only mounted
> file systems in
> Windows; Windows XP can unmount file systems on the
> fly, except the
> system partition)
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