quick ntsf and fat 32 question

[Jhill]

I currently run win xp with ntsf. Can I pop in a 2nd hard drive with win me and fat 32 and copy files from one hard drive to the other and vise versa? I plan on booting to the disk with win xp installed. Or will it not work?

Thanks

 

[handoverfist]

drive with ntsf cannot see fat32 partition.....

 

[Jhill]

So is my only option to directly network the 2 computers together with cat5 cable and copy the files over that way?
That will still work right?

 

[NogginBoink]

Handoverfist is wrong.

An NT machine can copy files between FAT and NTFS partitions all day long with no problem.

 

[Jhill]

Thanks for the info Noggin if I boot to the fat 32 disk will it still work of do I have to boot to the ntfs disk? Just curious.

 

[handoverfist]

An os that only supports fat32 at the most, cannot access ntfs ... Right ?

 

[NogginBoink]

Okay... if you put a FAT drive into a machine and boot to NT/2K/XP, no problem.

If you put a FAT drive in there and boot to DOS/Win9x on the FAT drive, no that OS won't see the NTFS partitions. (handoverfist's argument)

Put the drive in there and boot to XP. That'll work for ya.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Isnt there a FAQ on this?

FAT32 and NTFS on the same system

duh