I have a new PC with WIN95 installed on it with an 18gb FAT32 hard drive.Is there anyway to load NT Workstation on it without formating the drive??

Are you looking to dual-boot your machine? If so, you need to install NT to a separate partition (preferably a separate physical hard disk) that will have to be formatted with FAT, not FAT32. NT cannot use FAT32. If you are looking to install NT over the existing Win95 partition, then you will absolutely have to reformat to FAT, for the same reason.

Doofus, THe problem is that if you try to install NT on a different physical drive, and the C drive is still FAT32, it will fail. NT needs to install its boot files and boot menu to the C drive, which must be FAT or NTFS. She could use an app like partition magic to convert the drive, but she'd probably run out of space.

http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=13902 is the 'hack' to accomodate FAT32 '9x courtesy of John Savill's FAQ's at: http://win2000mag.com The text-book/core requirement for dual/multi-boot NT/'9x/DOS is the C: system FAT16 (active Primary) partition - which is where all installed M$ OS's install their boot/start-up files. It has to be and remain FAT16; if C: system = NTFS then again a dual/multi-boot is not possible... without a re-install etc. to establish the correct conditions... Equally with FAT32 system partition, you could use PM's (or another's) boot-manager to accomdate the problem. Check with PM for more on this. http://www.webdev.net/orca/nojava/faq.htm for other boot-manager ideas. One other possibility. If your present '98 FAT32 is 'small' enough to fit into a 2Gig max FAT16 partition, then that may be a way to go... (i.e. convert it 'back' to FAT16),; then install NT. If you go this route, then ideally install NT into it's own partition (PM to create it?); but it 'can' sit/install alongside '9x (same partition) - as long as its FAT16. Finally, remember that NT cannot 'see' FAT32, and '98 cannot 'see' NTFS - without the use of third party utils from sysinternals.com