hi guys i have a question:

im thinking about switching my 40 gig main drive to my 2ndary 80 gig drive

ive figured out how to copy my linux partition
http://lug.mtu.edu/lists/lug-l-0302/msg00051.html
ill prolly use a livecd for that

my paritioning scheme is going to be:
hda1 100m boot partition dos fat32
hda2 500m swap
hda3 20g linux reiserfs
hda4 extended
hda5 20g xp ntfs
hda6 20g ntfs storage
hda7 2g windows 98 fat32
hda8 15-20g rest fat32 storage

now my problem is:
according to that site the copy method ill use
it prolly wont copy my root partition lilo etc
so ill just active my linux partition and boot straight into it
without lilo, and then reload lilo in it

now my question now though is:
is there a way using dd i can copy my xp root partition?? from my old drive?
xp uses the nt bootloader installed onto the root partition of the the first dos/windows bootable drive
i was wondering if theres a way i could copy that root partition from partition to another partition' s root
so ill have the nt bootloader available on my dos boot drive

and if i could copy the root partition, that wouldnt mess up the destination partition's filesystem by chance would it?

im just wondering if i could do that, even though ill prolly have to reinstall xp, but i dont feel like doing that at the moment, but i still want the nt bootloader available to me, considering thats what i use to multiboot xp, 98 and linux and not grub

thanks any help would be appreciated!

-KFizzle


oh btw:
is there any advantage using fat16 over fat32 for a small partitions smaller than 2 gig? like my 100m boot parttion?