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I'm currently on XP Professional 32 bits with two primary partitions (C and
E). Can I use Partition Magic to create a new partition using the space from
E and then boot and install Windows XP Professional x64 Edition in that new
partition? If so: what should be the selected file system for it (NTFS,
NTFS32, etc) ?

thanks

"G.Beck" <> wrote in message
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> I'm currently on XP Professional 32 bits with two primary partitions
> (C and E). Can I use Partition Magic to create a new partition using
> the space from E and then boot and install Windows XP Professional
> x64 Edition in that new partition? If so: what should be the selected
> file system for it (NTFS, NTFS32, etc) ?
>
> thanks

Hi,

for security reasons, I would say NTFS for all your partitions. If you still
have partitions in FAT or FAT32, you may upgrade to NTFS without losing any
data.
If I understand you well, You'll create another partition in E. So your HD
will be partitioned in 3. Not a problem by seeing the price of a new hard
disk, you ma consider to buy one.
Anyway, the multiboot will give you the possibility to start XP32 or x64.

Cheers


--
Christian Hougardy [MS MVP XP]
Johannesburg - South Africa
http://msmvps.com/xpditif

I will always recommend NTFS, for a wide variety of reasons. And I would
strongly suggest that the new partition be not less than 10GB, and
preferrably more like 20GB.

--
Charlie.

G.Beck wrote:
> I'm currently on XP Professional 32 bits with two primary partitions
> (C and E). Can I use Partition Magic to create a new partition using
> the space from E and then boot and install Windows XP Professional
> x64 Edition in that new partition? If so: what should be the selected
> file system for it (NTFS, NTFS32, etc) ?
>
> thanks

All right then...Tonight's the night! I'll give it a shot.....

If I'm not back tomorrow to add a new reply here....you know what happened!!!

GB

"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> I will always recommend NTFS, for a wide variety of reasons. And I would
> strongly suggest that the new partition be not less than 10GB, and
> preferrably more like 20GB.
>
> --
> Charlie.
>
> G.Beck wrote:
> > I'm currently on XP Professional 32 bits with two primary partitions
> > (C and E). Can I use Partition Magic to create a new partition using
> > the space from E and then boot and install Windows XP Professional
> > x64 Edition in that new partition? If so: what should be the selected
> > file system for it (NTFS, NTFS32, etc) ?
> >
> > thanks
>
>
>