Platinum Edition Using® Microsoft® Windows® XP

Windows XP, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 9x/Me

Although it might be uncommon, it is possible to create a setup using all three of these operating systems. Take the following approach:

1.	Create three partitions (or four if you want a separate data partition). You can create these partitions on one or two hard drives, or three if you have that many.
2.	If you decide you want a data partition, make it FAT16 because NT 4.0 can't see FAT32. FAT16 is the one common denominator. See Table 4.4 for a suggested layout. As you can see from the table, we're suggesting using FAT16 for all the partitions to ensure maximum compatibility and the least amount of drive letter shifting.
3.	Install Windows 9x/Me in the first partition. If asked whether you want to ...