If for any reason you want the drive where Win XP is installed to be seen by Win 
9X, it must be in FAT.  There are those of us who have been around long enough to 
know that NTFS can be a pain for some operations, like trying to recover data from 
a crashed drive, or we just don't need the overhead and security options (along with 
the associated problems of permissions), of an NTFS system.  I use NTFS where file 
sizes need to be larger than 4 gig (audio/video files) and on server installations 
but not much else currently.

Can programs that look for the C drive be effected?  Yes they can, but more often 
they will look at the drive where the current running Windows install is. Some poorly 
coded program/installers may want to install onto your Win 9X (C)drive which wouldn't 
be very good, if it insists on storing user data, (and other files such as config 
files) there that you might want to retrieve in the event of a crash..

As for posting here, your questions were closely enough related to the same issue/operation 
that you could use the same thread, and the "forum police" around here would probably 
appreciate it.  ;-) 







On Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 10:03 pm, david wrote:

>DNA, this is exactly what I needed to know. From your sig, looks like you've done 

>this a few times!

>

>I didn't realize XP setup would/could create and format its own partition. BTW, 
why 

>would anyone want to install XP on a FAT32 partition? 

>

>One more question...

>Since XP will live on virtual drive D (or whatever), will this create problems for 

>software expecting the root directory to be C:/ ?

>

>David 

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