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**98 Guy**

wrote:

On top of that, the XP installation was formatted with NTFS,
and if I can not access my data from dos, its not going to be
saved on my computer. That NTFS format is a guarantee to
losing all important data.

You can install XP and Win-2k on a FAT-32 formatted drive. If you
install DOS first (like DOS 7.1) then you can have a dual-boot DOS/XP
system. I've build a few systems by doing that.

I've done it for basically the same reasons - I can access the all files
from DOS, and the system runs faster because of the lack of NTFS
overhead. And yes, your data is actually safer and more recoverable
under FAT32 vs NTFS.

You can set XP up to give it the "classic" look so it has the look and
feel of win-98, but the worst thing I hate about XP is the file-find
window. The file-find gets worse under Vista and Seven.

And the fact that XP is way more vulnerable to exploitation compared to
98.