dethangel said:that is prolly what im gong to do, but im not going to format the drive in NTFS, as their stuff is in FAT32 and it wont be able to be transferred to an NTFS drive, and FAT32 is better for games anywayz. they have a 13GB HDD and a 160GB HDD, so ima put the OS on the 13GB (if we can find it lol) and the data/progs on the 160GB, that way ill never have to worry about losing their data if their OS crashes, which it will, within the next 6 months, guarunteed
I'm not 100% sure, but I'm sure you can access a FAT32 drive from a NTFS drive.
If you're installing Windows XP on FAT32, get ready to be formatting again. I did this, nothing but crashes and problems. Why? XP Is more designed for NTFS. NTFS provides a lot more secruity then what FAT32 does.
Try this, go in command prompt after you installed XP on NTFS and type:
CONVERT drive NTFS
(I think it's that, if not try looking it up on www.google.com for more information)
This may or may not lose files, you shouldn't as it's converting everything to FAT32 instead. I would surely look this up on the internet before *doing* this.
But, then again if you're not installing XP then I wasted my time