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  1. 07-03-2004, 07:50 PM #1
    dannysosa
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    Formatting partition for ntfs

    I have 1 40gb drive partitioned into two of 20gb, and I want to format one of these for installing windows xp home, how can I format it in ntfs and not linux format?
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  2. 07-05-2004, 03:50 PM #2
    mzilikazi
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    Dunno if you can format NTFS w/ any Linux tools or not. Shouldn't matter tho- the XP installer has to be able to format a drive itself so simply point the installer to your partition and let it do the formatting for you.
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