Can I mix FAt 32 and NSFT file systems on one computer?
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Posted by Walter R. on June 30, 2008, 10:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options use two 80 GB hard drives, one for the operating system and one for data. Each disk has several partitions. Both disks are formatted in Fat 32. I just bought a 500 GB SATA drive and will use it in conjunction with a PCI/SATA controller. This new drive will be used for backups of the other two FAT drives. I would like to partition the new drive in 3 partitions and format it in NTFS. My next computer (2 years) will come with SATA drives. I am just trying to do an interim upgrade from ATA and from FAT 32. Will this work? Can I transfer files from a FAT 32 drive to a NTSF drive in the same computer? Thank you -- Walter www.rationality.net - ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** | |||||||||||||
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Posted by DevilsPGD on July 1, 2008, 4:14 am
Please log in for more thread options In short, yes. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Sean.May on July 1, 2008, 1:27 pm
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Yes, FAT32 to NTFS works just fine. Generally speaking, newer technology doesn't have much of an issue working with older technology unless there are lots of updates to the basic technology and the companies tend to stop supporting it, or if it's been so long that the computer industry needs to move away from that technology to continue on. The issue that you run into most of the time is that some type of new technology can't be integrated into the older tech stuff since building that type of compatibility in would generally weaken the advances we've come up with along the way. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on July 2, 2008, 9:36 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:27:58 -0500, Sean.May
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>Yes, FAT32 to NTFS works just fine. Generally speaking, newer >technology doesn't have much of an issue working with older technology >unless there are lots of updates to the basic technology and the >companies tend to stop supporting it, or if it's been so long that the >computer industry needs to move away from that technology to continue >on. In this context I can think of a notable exception, that WinXP can't format FAT32 volumes over 32GB. Regardless of whether anyone made the right choice of which filesystem to use, it was rather controlling of MS to artificially limit this. >
>The issue that you run into most of the time is that some type of new >technology can't be integrated into the older tech stuff since building >that type of compatibility in would generally weaken the advances we've >come up with along the way. > I don't know about weaken... more like it'd cost a tiny bit more or someone decides to shun something... like when Intel decided they wouldn't put PATA controllers in their southbridges, that they know best that people should use *only* SATA. I would assume their thinking was that this is not significant to OEMs building new PCs who don't tend to put together advanced configurations or use legacy parts. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Mike Walsh on July 1, 2008, 1:53 pm
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Yes, you can mix FAT32 and NTFS on the same computer, even on the same drive. You might also consider that file formats don't matter on networked drives. Win98 can access a NTFS partition on a WinXP PC, WinXP can access a ext3 partition on a Linux PC. etc. "Walter R." wrote: >
> My computer is 7 years old but running just fine. I am using Win XP SP2. I > use two 80 GB hard drives, one for the operating system and one for data. > Each disk has several partitions. Both disks are formatted in Fat 32. > > I just bought a 500 GB SATA drive and will use it in conjunction with a > PCI/SATA controller. This new drive will be used for backups of the other > two FAT drives. I would like to partition the new drive in 3 partitions and > format it in NTFS. > > My next computer (2 years) will come with SATA drives. I am just trying to > do an interim upgrade from ATA and from FAT 32. > > Will this work? Can I transfer files from a FAT 32 drive to a NTSF drive in > the same computer? -- Mike Walsh | |||||||||||||
>the same computer?