Re: Partition Converting Question

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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 ?


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