Reading NTFS on FAT32 system

[quique911]

Hey, whats up everybody? I'm planning to trouble shoot an older system running Windows 98 1st edition. I was going to temporarily install a drive that was formated under XP (NTFS) as the slave drive to recover files into the master (FAT32). Do you know if this will be a problem?

Thanks!

 

[NokiaDude]

NTFS can read FAT32, but FAT32 can not read NTFS, it will be "invisible".

 

[Pariah]

The OS determines file system support, not the file system on the other drives. Windows 9x variants cannot read NTFS drives without 3rd party drivers.

 

[DaveSimmons]

A Ghost boot floppy or CD could write to the NTFS drive, but W98 can't

 

[Slogun]

One way to get a FAT32 system to read the files on an NTFS drive is to network the FAT32 system with an NTFS system which has the drive you want to access installed on it.

For example, a Win98 system running FAT32 can read the files on a WinXP NTFS system when the systems are networked and filesharing is enabled.

 

[owensdj]

NTFS for Windows 98

I've never used this free utility from Sysinternals, but it should let your Win98 system read the data on the NTFS partition.

 

[CQuinn]

One way to get a FAT32 system to read the files on an NTFS drive is to network the FAT32 system with an NTFS system which has the drive you want to access installed on it.

That's not getting the "FAT32 system" to read NTFS. One computer (Win9x) is talking to the other computer
(Win2000/XP) and the file systems are invisible between them as long as they are set to be shared.

The Win9x system is not reading the files directly, it is asking the other OS to read back the files. Its the same
thing when you get files over a network from a Linux/Unix/Mac OS or other networked OS.

 

[Slogun]

Originally posted by: CQuinn

One way to get a FAT32 system to read the files on an NTFS drive is to network the FAT32 system with an NTFS system which has the drive you want to access installed on it.

That's not getting the "FAT32 system" to read NTFS. One computer (Win9x) is talking to the other computer
(Win2000/XP) and the file systems are invisible between them as long as they are set to be shared.

The Win9x system is not reading the files directly, it is asking the other OS to read back the files. Its the same
thing when you get files over a network from a Linux/Unix/Mac OS or other networked OS.

I'm just trying to show the guy another way to access the files.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Slogun

Originally posted by: CQuinn

One way to get a FAT32 system to read the files on an NTFS drive is to network the FAT32 system with an NTFS system which has the drive you want to access installed on it.

That's not getting the "FAT32 system" to read NTFS. One computer (Win9x) is talking to the other computer
(Win2000/XP) and the file systems are invisible between them as long as they are set to be shared.

The Win9x system is not reading the files directly, it is asking the other OS to read back the files. Its the same
thing when you get files over a network from a Linux/Unix/Mac OS or other networked OS.

I'm just trying to show the guy another way to access the files.

In order to access the drive through the network, he still needs a computer that can read the drive in the first place, so that doesn't help him any.

 

[Slogun]

Originally posted by: Pariah

Originally posted by: Slogun

Originally posted by: CQuinn

One way to get a FAT32 system to read the files on an NTFS drive is to network the FAT32 system with an NTFS system which has the drive you want to access installed on it.

That's not getting the "FAT32 system" to read NTFS. One computer (Win9x) is talking to the other computer
(Win2000/XP) and the file systems are invisible between them as long as they are set to be shared.

The Win9x system is not reading the files directly, it is asking the other OS to read back the files. Its the same
thing when you get files over a network from a Linux/Unix/Mac OS or other networked OS.

I'm just trying to show the guy another way to access the files.

In order to access the drive through the network, he still needs a computer that can read the drive in the first place, so that doesn't help him any.

I suggest you reread the guys original post. He asked a simple question with very little additional background info. For all we know, the guy has five computers running 3 different OS's at his disposal.
At a minimum, sounds like he has possibly 2 computers, each of which is bootable, one win98, one winxp. I think that is a reasonable assumption.
The problem with this forum is there are far too many people just posting to criticize what other people say rather than offering some helpful advice.