fat32 on windowsxp

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XP can format your drive to NTFS. The problem is that to format a harddrive it requires total erasure of data.

This isnt actually true... Windows XP 9And 200 I think) come with a utility called convert. It will convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS with no data loss including the "c:" drive. I have used this and works great. More details found here ->http://www.ntfs.com/quest3.htm or just type convert /? in a cmd window