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re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 5:29 am
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Posted by Lorna (11 messages posted)


Hi, thanks very much for your help. I was a bit wary about re-formatting as I'm worried about product activation. However, I noticed no choices during the recovery process that allowed me to determine which partition to install in. Is there a way to make sure it gets into the right one!? Once again, thanks for your help! Lorna.


On Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 5:13 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>Not only CAN XP run on FAT32, most users would be better off using FAT32 partitions.
>Of course you should not have installed it on the Recovery partition. You need to
>pay more attention to the prompts when you re-install again. The ideal size for an
>XP system partition seems to be about 12 to 20GB, depending on the needs of the user.
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Written in response to:
re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Ricer46: Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 5:13 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Ricer46: Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 5:47 am)
*re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Richard Harris: Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 8:37 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Lorna: Sat, Aug 23, 2008, 11:53 pm)
*re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (bob wells: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 2:26 am)
-re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Ricer46: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 5:13 am)
-re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Lorna: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 5:29 am)
-re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Ricer46: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 5:47 am)
*re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Lorna: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 7:40 am)
-re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Richard Harris: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 8:37 am)
*re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition (Lorna: Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 8:27 am)
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