Originally posted by f16pilot
Feldon27,
The Windows98 disk when used on a FAT32 formatted XP or 2000 OS disk will let you roam freely in the "DOS" side of the files.
Running XP/2000 on FAT32 is a major performance drain, plus FAT32 is more susceptible to corruption. 2000 was meant to run on NTFS5.
Originally posted by f16pilot
If the drive is NTFS formatted you can still do everthing above, but you first need to convert it to FAT32 via Partition Magic.
Spending hours doing this, playing Russian roulette with my data (sorry, I don't trust Partition Magic) seems to be grossly disadvantageous compared to installing 2000 on another hard drive, booting up off of the new drive and accessing the old drive that way.