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Can I use two different file systems or FAT?s on a XP Pro system?

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Quick1

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I have two 80gb drives I?ve been using on an old Win98SE system. The current C: Drive will be formatted and Win XP Pro will be installed with the NTFS file system. Will XP Pro be able to read my D: drive which has 50 gigs of back-up data and of course the Win98se FAT32 file system?
 
Originally posted by: Quick1
I have two 80gb drives I?ve been using on an old Win98SE system. The current C: Drive will be formatted and Win XP Pro will be installed with the NTFS file system. Will XP Pro be able to read my D: drive which has 50 gigs of back-up data and of course the Win98se FAT32 file system?
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Yes, no problem at all.
 
Cool...I don't have to install the old FAT32 for the XP C drive! I can use the newer NTFS FAT and still see the old FAT32 D drive. :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Quick1
Cool...I don't have to install the old FAT32 for the XP C drive! I can use the newer NTFS FAT and still see the old FAT32 D drive. :thumbsup:
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Small correct, the term is NTFS not 'NTFS FAT'. NTFS and FAT are seperate file systems, but aside from the terminology you are correct. You can use NTFS on C and FAT32 on D (in fact, many external drives and flash cards and simply fat or fat32 drives which XP happily reads)

Bill
 
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