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In addition, Mandrake 9.1 can be installed on a computer that has Windows 2000 or Windows XP installed. Those operating systems format hard disks with Microsoft's NTFS file system, which Linux is only beginning to support. Mandrake can carve off a piece of an NTFS, or NT file system, disk partition for its own use and read data from an NTFS partition, said Mandrake co-founder Gael Duval in an e-mail interview. However, it can't yet write files on the NTFS partition.