Will time machine backup my windows xp partition?

as the subject reads

Yeah, i've found the only benefit to NTFS on a mac is it supports files bigger than 4Gb
I'm thinking of going back to FAT32 because osx STILL doesn't natively support read/write to NTFS, only read
And the 3G NTFS driver is REALLY buggy. I can't get it to work with 10.5 correctly.
I tried formatting my bootcamp partition as fat32 and windows installed to it, but it wouldn't boot, came up with a generic disk error
I think that was because the partition was bigger than 32Gb, which FAT32 is not supposed to support.
You can format a partition much bigger than that (my 750Gb was FAT32 until last week) without any problem, but I don't think windows will boot off anything bigger than 32Gb unless its NTFS
thanks for the help!

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Pondini wrote:
... feel free to tell Apple at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/timemachine.html
I'm going to do that.
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eyebo wrote:
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abnospam wrote:
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I own a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard (until recently).
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