Can I use Win Xp as a scratch disk?

Just a quickie - Illustrator cs3 is on my apple mac. But I run Bootcamp and have win XP edition on my partition (this is not the same as parallels where you can switch between operating systems without restarting) bootcamp you have to restart the mac. But in the preferences under scratch disks it seems to give me the option of win xp in the drop down dialogue to use as a scratch disc.
Thankyou

Not too technical at all.
Scratch Space is used to store common document data like Document size, Color Mode, etc.. data that can be retrieved quicky when needed.
It is set aside when you launch Illustrator, then deleted when you quit Illustrator.
(Photoshop works similarly)

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