Copy NTFS to Fat 32

Hope I am not a hypocrit for asking this here.!
Bought a used Dell which already had XP on it but HD formatted as NTFS
There is no disc for thye XP

Had hoped to set this up as a dual booth with Ubuntu Linux. But Ubuntu only works in FAT32.

My question: If I used Norton ghost to copy the XP onto a back up drive, would it be possible to reformatt the existing drive to FAT32, then ghost the image back onto so that I end up with XP on a FAT32??

Any comments would be appreciated.

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    ... > Bought a used Dell which already had XP on it but HD formatted as ... > Had hoped to set this up as a dual booth with Ubuntu Linux. ... > Ubuntu only works in FAT32. ... If I used Norton ghost to copy the XP onto a back up ...
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