Thanks to all who responded. Whilst I agree wholeheartedly with those who said that I shouldn't be doing this, there are 'political' reasons why I'm pursuing it.
I haven't finally resolved the issue, but I seem to be making some progress with an external CD writer. (The erratic behaviour of the installed drive was why I didn't follow through with this earlier.) It seems that W/XP will acknowledge the existence of a FAT32 partiton created by something other than itself, but then refuses to have anything more to do with it..... Chris.
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