I am having to fit another Hard Disk because of the amount of FS files. My HD at the moment is fat32 due to the fact that I need dual boot because my CH stick is the old analog fighterstick which can't be programmed with XP, and I have to boot into a small install of Win98 to do it. The question is, being that the new drive is a different physical drive rather than a partition of the primary, can I format it under NTFS, then having the primary as Fat32 and the new one as NTFS. Thanks for any helpAnthony

Yes, you can format the new one as NTFS, I have two NTFS drives and one FAT32 drive on my system and everything works great!Good Luck!Philip Olsonhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/supporter.jpg

Thanks PhilipAnthony.

You can format it NTFS, but be careful with drive letter assignments. Since the Win98 system can't see the NTFS partition, it won't assign a drive letter to it. If the NTFS is set as a primary partition, it would normally be assigned as drive letter D: (primary partition on second physical hard drive). Of course, if your first physical drive is partitioned with only a primary partition (C: ) then this is a "don't care".scott s..

>You can format it NTFS, but be careful with drive letter>assignments. Since the Win98 system can't see the NTFS>partition, it won't assign a drive letter to it. If the NTFS>is set as a primary partition, it would normally be assigned>as drive letter D: (primary partition on second physical hard>drive). Of course, if your first physical drive is>partitioned with only a primary partition (C: ) then this is a>"don't care".>>scott s.>.>ScottThanks did not know that. At the moment I have the drive config of C: bootD: fss2204E: This has a small win98se partition of 2gig just J/stick program plus a couple of other things.I: generalBy what you say then, partition E will show if I leave the above as fat32 as they are now on the primary drive, and use the new drive with ntfs, things will be the same and I can re-assign the first partition on the new drive to something other than D: under XP.I understand what you are saying about the assignments under the dos days, for example where your second partition (D)on the primary would move to E afer an extra drive was fitted. So am I thinking correct about re-assigning the letters for the new physical drive partitions I create under XP. I just want to add more space and thought I would format in NTFS for the new drive, and leave the primary as it is.Sorry to go onAnthtony....