[newbie] NTFS ?

[Ralph Bagwell]

My effort to install Mandrake 9.1 on a PC that has Windows XP already installed has stopped at the "partitioning" phase twice . I now recall a comment somewhere that Linux doesn't like NTFS systems - Can I install on this XP machine that is using NTFS? If not can I use Partition Magic and create  a FAT 32 partition and go from there?   I'm on hold  !!   Thanks   Ralph