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NTFS differ for windows 2000 and XP?

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btcomm1

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I formatted a drive in windows XP with NTFS quick format, then booted off windows 2000 install disc. Tried to install and it copied files to the hd then would not start the rest of the windows setup. I'm currently doing the long format required by windows 2000, is that normal? Did the ntfs change to an incompatible version with XP?
 
Unless the drive was already formatted in NTFS, Quick Format won't work. There was no change in NTFS from W2K to XP or Vista. NTFS is NTFS.
 
If you say so - I've never seen a problem since NT4 thru Vista on being able to read drives.

My main point was that a new drive has to be full formatted before it can be quick formatted. And, and NTFS quick format cannot reformat a FAT 32 HDD.
 
If you say so - I've never seen a problem since NT4 thru Vista on being able to read drives.
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NT4 SP4 was one of the main culprits, once you installed SP4 you couldn't boot a previous version of NT.

My main point was that a new drive has to be full formatted before it can be quick formatted. And, and NTFS quick format cannot reformat a FAT 32 HDD.
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And none of those points are true. A full format just does a bad block check in addition to creating the filesystem, it's not required by anything and you can format any filesystem over top of any other filesystem.
 
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