Re: Slave hard drive
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:45:38 -0400
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.
"Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
So if the OP, for one reason or another, needs to maintain the boot drive
FAT32-formatted, it would be best to format the 30 GB HD FAT32 as well.
Otherwise both drives should be formatted NTFS.
OP - Is there some particular reason why your boot drive (presumably with
XP installed) has been formatted FAT32?
Anna
"BR549" <pleasenospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
"Bob I" <birelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Drives don't ACCESS drives, operating systems do.
BR549 & Bob I:
You are correct. I provided wrong information.
My only excuse - flimsy as it may be - is that I had just been working on a
Win Me/XP machine that had file system incompatibilities issues involved and
I mistakenly carried over my mindset in responding to the OP's query.
Obviously the information I provided is not relevant to the OP's situation
since (presumably) he/she has installed the XP OS on his/her "master" (boot)
HD.
I should have known better. My apologies to the OP.
Anna
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