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resulted in some incompatibilities between systems, which you
must consider when you set up a dual boot system.

Using Compatible File Systems

Although Windows 2000 can read and write disks that are
formatted in the NTFS, FAT16, and FAT32 file systems, other
operating systems cannot. The following Table shows file system
compatibility for each of the dual boot operating systems.

Table/ File System Compatibility
Operating System FAT16 FAT32 NTFS
MS-DOS, Windows 3.x Yes No No
Windows 95 (versions 4.00.950 Yes No No
and
4.00.950A; the
latter is also
known as SP1,
OEM Service
Release 1, or
OSR 1)
Windows 95 (all later versions) Yes Yes No
Windows 98 Yes Yes No
Windows NT Yes No Yes
Windows 2000 Yes Yes Yes
This operating system doesn't include native support for this file
system, but you can obtain third-party software that lets you read
(and, in some cases, write to) drives with this format. Systems
Internals (www.sysinternals.com) offers several programs that let
you use otherwise inaccessible drives, including NTFSDOS, NTFS
for Windows 98, and FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0.
The limitations created by the file compatibility issue have two
ramifications:
• Each operating system must be installed on a partition that's
formatted with one of the file systems compatible with that
operating system.
• When you boot into an operating system, it can read only the
partitions that are formatted with a compatible file system.
Both of these restrictions seem obvious enough, but they mean that