Re: increasing hard drive size

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bsfoss@xxxxxxxx wrote:


i was wondering if i can format my 120 gig to ntfs (my 6gig has
windows xp already installed as a fat32) can i have the 6gig with xp
fat32 and the 120 gig as ntfs?

Yes, WinXP handles any combination of NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 partitions.

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