Re: Access a hard drive formated for Win 98?
From: Pegasus (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 08/06/04
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:21:37 +1000
"Ken" <kenandeva@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. Can XP access a hard drive formated for Win 98?
>
> I'm about to upgrade from a PC running Win 98 SE to a new computer
> running XP. My 98 computer has a backup internal hard drive. I'd
> like to take this drive and install it as a backup in my XP PC. The
> idea is that I'd do this as a way of transferring files on my 98 PC to
> the new XP PC.
>
> After I had the 98 hard drive installed in my XP machine, I'd transfer
> the files to the XP's main hard drive, and then reformat the 98 drive
> to be an XP drive.
>
> However, I'm thinking that XP might not be able to read a disk that
> was formatted for 98. But then, maybe it can?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
WinXP can read FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions. Since Win98
uses a subset of these (FAT and FAT32), it follows that WinXP
will cheerfully read anything created by Win98.
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