A couple filing system questions........

[killmeplease]

I'm going to install XP in my main system. I have W2K in 2 others networked. All partitions in all my systems are currently FAT32.

Do I have to convert to NTFS for W2K or should I?

If I do convert to NTFS in my main machine, will I have problems sharing files from the FAT32 machines or my FAT32 "Documents" HDD?

 

[corkyg]

No, you don't need to convert. But, if you should want to, there is no problem between FAT and NTFS across a network. They can see the data just fine either way. It is like the Internet . . . a large network. You have Macs talking to PC with all sorts of variations. No problem.

The only problem NTFS might pose is if you do any boots using a DOS disk . . . then the DOS loaded system will not be able to read the NTFS HDD.