----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Poffenberger" <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> Hi Venkat,
> 
> If you plan to link the two computers (say via network), then it doesn't 
> matter what you format the partitions to. This is a question that comes up 
> a lot. As long as the computer that physically hosts the disk supports the 
> filesystem, then any computer that can network to it can read/write data, 
> even if it doesn't natively support the actual filesystem on the disk. So 
> in that case, yes your Win98 PC could transfer files to an NTFS partition 
> on the new computer.
> 
> Now, if you plan to physically move the disk to the Win98 computer to 
> transfer the files, then it would not be able to access an NTFS partition.
> 
> 
> Russ Poffenberger
> [log in to unmask] 
>

Has  long You don't use non-ASCII characters in filenames! At least 
in case of Windows 2000 and Windows XP - could be fixed with 
service packs. Some WinXP Unicode/Win98 codepage problems.
Seems that WinXP don't transfers codepage into Unicode names
and afterward couldn't read file. Shared files are accessible from Win98 
computer. 

Toomas

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