On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:00:23 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote: > > hi > > i have FC3 installed in my computer along with windows XP > > my partitions is as follow > > > > 20 GB NTFS > > 40 GB NTFS > > 15 GB EXT3 > > 5 GB SWAP > > > > since i can only mount NTFS partitions as read only under linux, i > > would like to convert them to Fat32 > > i guess linux reads and writes to Fat32 with no problems at all. > > > > my question is if i converted them using any program like partition > > magic or any other, will this affect or make me lose the boot loader > > and prevent me from logging into linux ?? > > > > any advices ?? > > It is probably alright, particularly if the partition you convert is not > the XP "system" partition. Which bootloader are you using? > > Linux will be fine reading and writing to a FAT32 partition. > > Paul. thanks for the advice i use grub boot loader is there a way i can backup the loader to restore it when a problems occurs after the conversion ? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Ahmed Abdel-Aliem Web Developer www.ApexScript.com 0101108551 registered Linux user number 382789
