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To: mr.mark who wrote (20202)	6/2/2001 3:25:15 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hi Mark, i'm a big fan of preparation, though there's always that point where you have to stop all the reading and studying and just get into it! I reached the point of impatience eventually, and things went very fast from there forward. But it is important for me to muddle through things deliberately at first. After a while you gain familiarity with the process and can forge ahead using your common sense, checking documentation when only when needed. I think I could assemble a new one from now from scratch in an hour, but after a few months go by I'd probably have to start slowly again. The sources on dual booting you gave me make the process look pretty straight forward. I plan to use a different partition for XP. Is there an advantage to using NTFS (as opposed to FAT32, right?), or is that only for installations on a different physical drives? Seems more flexible to have all partitions and drives using the same file structure, don't you think? Will I need to have separate copies of all programs to run them under the different operating systems? I've noticed that the download versions are often different for Windows 2000 than 98. Esteban