Problem with partitioning -- How to format hard drive and reinstall Windows?

[Mike McCarty]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> WinXP can be either Fat32 or NTFS and Linux will work with both. If it
> is Fat32 it can be easily mounted in Linux and read and written to.
> However, writing too often can be bad for the health of WinXP.

In what sense do you mean "Linux will work with [NTFS]"?

AFAIK, writing is essentially not supported (no changes to
file sizes, or file creations), and reading has slightly
limited suports (file names sometimes get corrupted).

Mike
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