What is best?:to format into NTFS or to convert into NTFS? Because I created with fdisk and formated with format 4 partitionsne in FAT and the other three in FAT32 and installed windows 98 in one of the partitions with FAT32 and then I formatted one of the partitions with FAT32 in NTFS with the installation program of windows xp service pack 3 and then the installation freezed when it remained 33 minutes.Then I tried with converting into NTFS instead of formatting and It functioned.Is it bad,I mean is it likely to cause conflicts to format a FAT32 partition into NTFS or to convert a FAT32 partition into NTFS?
I think the XP CD will format and partion. Just wipe the drive and the master boot record and see if XP can't handle it. It should offer you the option really early in the install. fdisk delete all partions fdisk /mbr to kill the boot record. I think there is one space like I typed it