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Number   :  5206
Date     :  2003-08-03
Author   :  Virg
Subject  :  Re: once more: ntfs vs fat32
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Thanks, Garry.
That makes a lot of sense. Either direction between two computers with different
operating systems. My cousin has all his data backed up on an ntfs drive. Was
thinking of reverting to win98 SE but I figured he wouldn't be able to access his
data backups. He'll stick with XP for now but the ntfs access program on the site
you cited seems promising. Is there any particular reason not to change his
second hard drive to fat32 once he's restored his backups? Then future backups
would be accessible by either os.

Virg

----- Original Message -----
From: "garrydeane" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 1:02 AM
Subject: [xxcopy] Re: once more: ntfs vs fat32


> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Virg"  wrote:
> >
> > Am I correct in thinking that a computer with Win XP can
> > read and write to a fat32 disk but not vice versa? That is,
> > a Win98 SE computer can't read or write to an ntfs disk?
>
> That's correct if the NTFS drive is installed directly in the
> w98 PC although there are programs that will provide NTFS
> support to w98 e.g. from www.sysinternals.com.
>
> The original poster was referring to an NTFS drive on an XP
> system which was connected via a network and mapped drive
> to a FAT32 drive on the w98 system. In that situation, except
> for minor differences between the file systems, there's no
> problem reading/writing the drives in either direction. The
> OS for each PC takes care of the low level access to the
> hardware and file system at its own end and translates the
> file accesses into hardware neutral messages that are passed
> across the network.
>
> Garry
>
>
>
>
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