At 08:16 PM 1/23/2006, Venkat Viswanathan wrote:
>Many thanks to David Gillett, John Sproule, ang Hugh Vandervoort for their 
>input. I took the advice and partitioned my 120 gig hdd to 80/20/approx 14 
>gig.using the win xp pro disk.
>
>I then formatted only the 80 gig partition in NTFS and installed win xp 
>pro with SP2. all went well and i am posting this from this system.
>
>I have left the 20/14 gig unformatted to get some further advice and decide.
>
>(1) I need to transfer some data from my 6 year old quantum fireball with 
>win 98 se. will it be possible to do this (because this obviously is in 
>fat32) to NTFS if i format the other two partitions in NTFS?

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
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