Re: XP not reporting free/used/capacity space on a NAS

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nass <nass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Could it be because you have the NAS FAT32 formatted and not NTFS, as
windows XP can read FAT32, but the application you want to save or copy are
NTFS?.
HTH.
nass
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Totally irrelevant. There is no such thing as an application that can
use NTFS but not FAT32 (or vice versa). Applications pass all disk
read/write activity to the operating system using standard function
calls. Windows XP is fully capable of reading and writing both NTFS
and FAT32 drives mix and match.

I have a couple of FAT32 partitions on my hard drives (for when I boot
Windows 9x versions) and several NTFS. Windows XP has zero problems
using all of these partitions and can copy files back and forth
between FAT32 and NTFS partitions whenever I want to do so.

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