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They should be fine. Fat32 can be read by either system. If you had
NTFS the win98 won't read it, and if you placed security
restrictions/encryption on an NTFS drive then you may have trouble on a
different NTFS system.
FAT32 is generally read/write safe for either system.
Regards
Dan Ellis
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 18:45, Robert Lendrim wrote:
> I have two computers
> 1. Win98 Fat32
> 2. WinXP NTFS
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> I have a few mp3 files on an external USB hard drive that were downloaded
> from the Fat32 computer. I would like to plug the USB drive into the NTFS
> computer, play them, run scandisk, defrag, etc. If I do that, will the
> files be modified in any way, and will they still play on the Fat32
> computer? Thanks, Bob
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