Hi,

I would not think it to be desirable to convert to NTFS, unless you were
absolutely, positively, sure that you never wanted to boot from the hard
disk using the win 98se ever again or read the files from a 98 machine
again.

What would it hurt to leave the w98 files and folders there?  If left it
you have the ability to use it as a boot drive in an emergency.  What do
you gain by converting?  1gig of space?
What is the advantage of converting?  What if you wanted to move the box
to another system that was Win 98.  It would not be able to access the
files then.

I've never done a conversion through the USB port.  There may be some
issues that come up and could cause a problem with that also.

I think I would transfer all the files I really wanted to a temp
directory on the new drive, before I tried the conversion, then put them
back when done, or better yet make a set of cds with the files I really
wanted as a backup, first, in case the conversion bombed.

Thanks and have a Great Day!

Joe Lore

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I've now set up XP Pro on a new 20G x7200 hard drive.  My motherboard is
USB 2.0 compliant.

I plan to keep using my previous system drive, a 40G x7200 Maxtor, in a
USB enclosure.  The OS on this drive was W98SE.

Here's my query:  Is it possible or even desirable to convert the old
drive (in it's USB enclosure) to NTFS?

There's some 30Gb of data on the drive, in the form of MP3's, jpg's and
files etc, but I plan to delete the Windows folder along with any
associated files.

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