Kevin,

While I cannot attest to the accessibility of various file formats under
various winders systems, I think you may want to alter the partitions a
bit.

At the very least, the last partition can be deleted and a logical
partition for the rest of the drive can be created (yup, much larger than
32G).  Not that you would want your fat32 disk that large, but for now
work with me, that's not the point.  How this is accomplished varies from
one disk partitioning software to another.  You have not shared specifics,
so I will not speculate.

Next you would subdivide the last partition into mutiple drives (disk
partitions within the larger logical partition).  The first those logical
subdivided disks could very well be your 32G fat32 disk.  The remainder
could be NTFS, FAT32, EXT2, Reiser, or HPFS or whatever your needs might
be.  You cannot boot from those logical disks for the most part (a rare
exception or two might be possible), but they can be formatted to whatever
base file system you need (usually by one OS or another).

You would then have access to the entire 120G disk, though not necessarily
through all of your OS boot flavors.

For the most part, again exceptions might exist, you cannot hide these
logical disks from various operating systems.  So they might add disks, or
phantom disks to various OS boots.  Each OS type will vary.  

I'm sure others with experience with ECS, Linux, or various Winders
flavors could share with you some of their experiences on how these
partitions are "mounted" when the various OS flavors are loaded.

Best of luck.

-Mark

In , on 11/07/04 
   at 05:27 PM, Kevin Johnson  said:


>Hi Mark, you were first off the mark!

>You were correct of course as were the other respondents, which I thank 
>also.

>I have created all logicals, the wind was whistling in one ear and 
>straight out the other.

>However, XP insists that I format with NTFS, which of course I do not 
>want. I desire Fat32 and I thought that a drive of 32768 would or could 
>be formatted as Fat32. I'm guessing that the drives are slightly too 
>large and I have to cut back to ? to achieve Fat32.

>Any other input.

>Thanks


Regards,
-Mark



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