Re: Setting up PC for dual-boot Linux and Windows XP

From: Gordon Burgess-Parker (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:38:51 +0100

"Ed Light" <nobody@nobody.there> wrote in message
news:vkvcdgocge6m13@corp.supernews.com...
> When you make the partition for XP make it a fat32 with align for ntfs
> checked. Then when you install XP choose NTFS. (This gets around an XP
> failing.)

What "failing" is that? I've always installed XP straight onto an NTFS
partition that XP setup has formatted from scratch and never had any
problem.

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