FAT32 and NTFS on 2 hard drives?

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From: Shaun B (fairmontxabc_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:02:08 GMT

Hi all , I had XP installed on one hard drive --40 gig NTFS-- , and my other
drive was --80 gig NTFS-- ....I changed them both to FAT32 after finding
that XP makes it impossable to see the start up prompt from a bootdisk...ie
C:\ and D:\..

No matter what I tried when installing XP with its "convert to NTFS" or
"format to NTFS" the same problem happend for the prompt. thats why they
were changed to FAT32. So now that I have XP going on a crummy FAT32 is it
ok to have the OS on FAT32 and the other drive as NTFS?
I need the 80 gig to be NTFS for a program MYDVD for capturing from a DV
camera....

How do I format a drive as NTFS and still get to see them at the boot
prompt? I know XP wont do it.....
Oh and I have partitioned and repartitioned my 40 gig to death. So it wont
be a partition problem from FDISK , im quite good at using it now.

Thanks plp Shaun B

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