At 6/28/2003 10:28 PM, Ian wrote:

>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.

If security is not an issue, I know of no real reason to convert.  I left
my USB drive using FAT32 so I can read it with my Windows 98 machines in
case of a problem with my W2k machine.

Doug

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