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Topic: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

Hi to All,

I partitioned my 500GB hard drive into two sections FAT32 primary and secondary for Windows XP installation.
With gparted I can not install anything.
I have to use the format command from floppy recovery windows millenium.

what 's the problem?
where am I wrong?

thanks

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Re: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

I'm not sure I understand your question.

To clarify, GParted is a partition editor, not a program or Windows XP installer.  With GParted you can create and resize partitions, but for operating system installation you need to use the OS install media.

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Re: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

Please, remember that you have to mark "bootable" the system partition for xp.
This must be a primary (not extended or logical) partition.
Data partitions can be primary or logical.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

4 Reply by kabin (edited by kabin 2014-11-26 15:00:36)

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Re: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

excuse me for my bad english.. 
I prepare my hard disk with Gparted ... first primary partition with FAT32 and I set the flags Boot.
after formatting I restart my pc and push the original XP installation CDROM.
It start the istallation of OS then copy files on HD ..... but at restart (of PC) XP not run...
The only way for formatting FAT32 my HD is with my old recovery floppy of windows millenium.
in this case XP install successfully.
(because I will install windows on FAT32 and not on NTSF system)

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Re: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

If you are installing Windows XP, you can let Windows create and format the partition, or at least format the partition.

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Re: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

gedakc wrote:

If you are installing Windows XP, you can let Windows create and format the partition, or at least format the partition.

If I use the formatting of windows XP it format only with NTFS.
I need install windows on FAT32 for better Linux compatibility.

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Re: Fat32 for Windows XP installation

My memory is a little rusty, but I think DOS/Windows would write additional information about the partition location into the FAT file system.  This was supported in parted 2.3 and lower.

A possible work around to try would be to partition the drive with GParted.  Then open a terminal window and use command line parted to reformat the partition with FAT32.

The command would be something like the following:

parted /path-to-disk-device mkfs partition-number fat32

Where /path-to-disk-device is something like /dev/sda
     and partition-number is the number of the partion, for example 3