You work as a Network Administrator for Blue Bell Inc. You want to install Windows XP Professional on your computer, which already has Windows Me installed. You want to configure your computer to dual boot between Windows Me and Windows XP Professional. You have a single 40GB hard disk. Which of the following file systems will you choose to dual-boot between the two operating systems?

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B. FAT32 Windows Me has no NTFS support and can only read FAT or FAT32 volumes. FAT32 is fully supported by both Windows Me and Windows XP Professional, and it supports partition sizes well beyond the 2GB limit of FAT16, making it the only practical filesystem for dual-booting on a 40GB disk.

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A. NTFS NTFS is not recognized or accessible by Windows Me, so a partition formatted as NTFS would be unreadable from the Windows Me installation, breaking the dual-boot requirement.

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C. CDFS CDFS (Compact Disc File System) is a read-only filesystem for optical media and cannot be used to format or boot from a hard disk partition.

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D. FAT FAT (FAT16) has a 2GB maximum partition size limitation, making it entirely impractical for installing either operating system on a 40GB hard disk.

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