Re: NTFS

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From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:05:05 -0700

In news:1PidnQ7V-sZmGnzcRVn-ow@rogers.com,
S P <sama@orbis.pl> typed:

> I use three hard drives , are all of them have to be NTFS ?

No. Windows XP can handle any and all combinations of NTFS,
FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12, regardless of what file system it itself
is installed on.

Realize, for example, that when you use a floppy disk with an
NTFS hard drive, you're essentially doing just that--copying
files back and forth between your NTFS drive and a FAT one (in
the case of a floppy, it's FAT12). 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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