> > Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote: > > 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 ?? Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. My Win XP blew out and fat32 data was inaccesible as the OS would not boot. I saved all teh data in ntfs and used linux to access (copy) data and save it on linux partition, reformated my disk and we were fine. my question : is ntfs more secure than fat32 ? In the event of a crash what other options do we have to retrieve data.? thanks, MR
