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 > > 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 The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com