You can only use a Win98 boot disk if your partition is FAT32 because Win98 doesn't recognise NTFS.

Installed on one computer so far. Turned off the XP firewall since the computer has Zonealarm installed. Zonealarm brought up a number of alerts about changed programs (as expected) but no other...

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A free partitioning tool but you need to know what you are doing to use it because it is all manual entries and no nice graphical interface like the commercial ones.

There are third party partitioning tools such as PartitionMagic, PartitionIT, etc that can convert partitions between the various formats. Perhaps one of these can do what you want.

To be able to...

Of course what Microsoft (and all other companies) is most interested in is profit. As long as they can make more money by releasing new somewhat incompatible versions of operating systems every...