Hi,

Best to leave it as NTFS.  You will be able to share files with other OS's
just fine.
You make a Disk on the XP machine and load it into the older OS machines so
they know
how to talk to the XP machine in the network.

NTFS is much more secure than Fat32.





At 03:18 AM 01/18/2003 EST, you wrote:
>Just purchased a Toshiba Satellite 1415 with Windows XP Home installed.
>Question is the file format is now NTFS, called tech support said I had to
>leave it couldn't change it to fat 32 because of there license agreement, It
>would seem to me that I could reload it and choose fat 32 in the setup. I
>hate to do this but all my other systems in the network use win 98 or win me.
>Can I share files between them or would it be best to try and get all systems
>to fat32?
>Any suggestion or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I have not hooked it to
>the network yet, and I do own a copy of XP Home that I have yet to install [X
>mas present] . Thanks from past experiences I know how knowledgeable the list
>can be.
>
>Nancy Drew

Thanks,

Joe

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