* John Torrance <jtorrance(a)ihug.co.nz> [2005-07-02 05:55]:
However, on my main computer, I tried XP (NTFS) and Linux with disasterous results - lost my whole windows disk.
That can’t have much to do with the filesystem. Something must have touched the Windows partition for whatever reason, but the filesystem type was not it.
Has anyone successfully dual loaded Ubuntu on an XP machine where the XP is NTFS?
I know of various people dualbooting various Windows versions with various Linux distros, including Windows on NTFS partitions. There is no reason why it shouldn’t work. That’s one reason the “partitions” stuff really was invented for, after all – so you can stick multiple OSes on one machine without them stepping on each other’s toes.
Alternatively, can one convert NTFS to FAT32?
You don’t want to. FAT blows chunks. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>