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Rick Lindstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:56:09 -0400
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At 10:27 PM 6/12/2001 -0700, someone wrote:
>NTFS will read FAT32, but FAT32 will not read NTFS
>
>Doyle Hirsch wrote:
>
> > I've been using W2K for sum time, but I halven't made the switch to
> NTFS because I've got a lot ov data stored on floppies as FAT32. Will
> NTFS reed these floppies or do I need to downlode them onto the hard
> drive, make the conversion, and then put them on a ZIP or CD-R and store
> them in NTFS format?
> >

Floppies are formatted FAT12, so it doesn't matter. And Win2k is capable of
accessing both NTFS and FAT32.

Regards-



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Rick Lindstrom
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Tallahassee, FL. USA
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