Yeah Ian,
It is absolutely possible for you to convert the file system to NTFS without
any data lost. Your question "is is desirable", this depends on the purpose
what you are going to do with this NTFS drive. If you want to have more
securities for the data then you should to convert the file system to ntfs.
After deleting the associated files, you can run the data with other
applications reinstalling them.
Huynh Minh Huong
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From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 5:28 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Another USB query - formatting with NTFS?


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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