On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:08, Anne Wilson wrote: > - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data > immediately after the ntfs partition - you could do this from XP > instead, I think. For the rest of the drive just ignore it in PM.
Okay, that's where the free space is, and where the FAT32 partition will be. My question where that is concerned is that if I create another "primary drive" (e.g., "F:"), would that in any way affect my dual-boot status if it's just going to be used for data accessible to both systems? I'm paranoid at that point because the "Are you sure?" prompt from the program seems to foretell dire consequences, and makes it sound (to me) that creating it thusly would kill kittens and mangle baby ducks, not to mention screwing with my extant XP and MDK setups :-) Otherwise, I'm currently happy with the size of my XP primary and MDK/Linux partitions. All I want is one, single data partition out of that free space, and that mostly for convenient access from both OS'es ... I spent /way/ too much time in DOS and Windows on meager systems (20MB HD, then 100MB HD, then a 500MB drive DriveSpace'd to approx. 1 Gig, etc., so I'm quite the miser when it comes to disk space otherwise :-), and just want to stash music and graphics there, really. TIA -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519
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