Re: Slave hard drive
- From: "BR549" <pleasenospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:50:40 GMT
"Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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winterharborhouse wrote:
question is have a 30gb (fat32) as a master, installed a WD 40gb as
slave (NTFS) are they capatible or will I have to reformatt the slave to
fat32?
"Bob I" <birelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They are just fine as is.
Well, yes and no...
We're assuming, of course, that the OP has the XP operating system
installed on his/her 30 GB FAT32-formatted HD. If he/she is using, or
plans to use, the 40 GB NTFS-formatted HD as, for example, a repository
for backing up files from the FAT32-formatted drive, then there's a
problem.
The FAT32-formatted drive will not "see" the NTFS-formatted one. There
will be no practical way to directly copy/move folders/files from the boot
drive to the backup one. Simply stated, the FAT32-formatted drive will not
be able to access the NTFS-formatted drive.
If the OP is running Windows XP, it doesn't matter if the XP boot drive is
FAT32 or NTFS, XP will have no problems copying or moving files from one
drive to the other.
.
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