If you install as an upgrade, her registry entriesa and start menu should 
survive and so her installed applications will remain available -- but that 
probably WON'T convert her filesystem to NTFS.  You might need something 
like partition magic to do that trasnparently.

David Gillett


On 2 Oct 2007 at 19:58, alan smith wrote:

> I'm going upgrade a friend with a newer computer. She has CPU 733Mhz
> with FAT 32 file system in Win 98. I will set her up with a CPU of at
> least 1.6Ghz, and Win2Kpro, but I don't know  if she can save her
> files in NTFS. This is my first time trying to switch file systems.
> Can someone fill me in on the possibilities or problems. 

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