Adding a FAT32 "Logical Drive" Partition on a NTFS Hard Disk Drive

[Brad]

Hi,

Has anyone used "Partition Magic" or other utility on a NTFS hard disk
drive in a Windows XP home edition computer in the following manner:

Create a second partition (FAT32) as a "logical" drive, say "D:", with
NTFS partition as logical "C:" drive?

If so, using a Dos 7.1 bootable CD rom, although I can't access the
NTFS partition (logical drive "C:"), will I be able to access the FAT32
partition (logical drive "D:")?

Thanks in advance, Brad

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[Lil' Dave]

Re: Adding a FAT32 "Logical Drive" Partition on a NTFS Hard Disk Drive

"Brad" <bpetria@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:47f7a1a9.5186833@news.verizon.net...
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone used "Partition Magic" or other utility on a NTFS hard disk
> drive in a Windows XP home edition computer in the following manner:
>

A program called Partition Commander, yes.

> Create a second partition (FAT32) as a "logical" drive, say "D:", with
> NTFS partition as logical "C:" drive?
>

I did it like this, created primary partitions of adequate size for my 3
OSes and apps, then, an extended partition on the remaining space. In the
extened partition, I created 3 FAT32 partitions and one NTFS type 3
partition.

> If so, using a Dos 7.1 bootable CD rom, although I can't access the
> NTFS partition (logical drive "C:"), will I be able to access the FAT32
> partition (logical drive "D:")?
>

I can see the FAT32 partitions with Windows ME, and 98SE and ME boot
diskettes.

You have to be careful about accessing with 98SE and writing files with it
on large hard drives. When the total files sum over 132GB in size, files
may become corrupt from that point on. NTFS files are also inclusive in
that sum if using both NTFS and FAT32. This behavior has nothing to do with
partition sizes.

--
Dave

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