Full NTFS support.

[antidrugue]

I've installed WinXP on a fat32 partition, but I recall not being able to format a partition as fat32 in Win2kPro Installation, or something similar.

Yop, that's true. Once a drive is in NTFS format, the Windows installer (if you try a normal clean install) will notice it and won't allow you to format it in FAT32. As long as the hard drive, in it's present state, is not in NTFS, the Windows installer will allow you to format it in FAT32. Am I making sense?

So you can just do a quick format with fdisk prior to install Windows and it will allow you a FAT32 based installation (format & install).

[zeroth404]

Yop, that's true. Once a drive is in NTFS format, the Windows installer (if you try a normal clean install) will notice it and won't allow you to format it in FAT32. As long as the hard drive, in it's present state, is not in NTFS, the Windows installer will allow you to format it in FAT32. Am I making sense?

So you can just do a quick format with fdisk prior to install Windows and it will allow you a FAT32 based installation (format & install).

I had to read it twice, but that makes sense.

[bigtomrodney]

the windwos installer will allow you to simply delete that partition and recreate it as FAT32.

[Amouse]

ntfs not open standart of course,
but there are programs, working with it reliably enough:
Partition Magic
Acronis Disk Director
Norton Disk Doctor..