NTFS drive viewable when using Win98?

Duel boot system, 98SE and XP Home on its own drive. Been looking at converting to NTFS on the XP drive. Question is, when Im in 98, will the XP drive show up and all the folders? Ive made the mistake and saved files on the xp drive that were ment for the 98 drive, I would like to make the xp drive invisable to 98 and viseversa if possible. Any comments/suggestions?

Thank you.

 

If you change the XP drive to NTFS then it will not show up in 98, but since XP supports both NTFS and FAT you will still be able to see the 98 drive from XP.

 

You can use Partition Magic's Boot Magic tool to hide one OS from the other. It will hide the entire partition that the OS is contained on.

Alternately you can do the same thing manually but it is somewhat more complex and tiresome. You would use a Partition Table Editor (freely available) to designate which partition/partitions you choose to hide.

Overall, you may want to consider using Boot magic - installing each OS to its own partition, then create a FAT32 data partition for mutual sharing bi-directionally between Win98 and XP. That would give you some added possibilities.

Eventually you will outgrow your desire to run Win98 and Partition Magic can easily put things back in shape for a single OS.