Mixing FAT32 and NTFS hard drives in the same computer

>-----Original Message-----
>Here's a question:
>
>I'm running Windows XP home. My master HD is NTFS while
my
>slave is FAT32. The system runs fine as is - no dropped
>frames - no crashes - nothing to complain about.
>
>Is this a stable configuration, or should I reformat my
>slave from FAT32 to NTFS???
>
>Anyone have experience in this area???
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>David jensen
>.
>

Sounds good to me; you can store all your private stuff
in ntfs and share your fat on a virtual network. Some
networks do the same for security reasons. I guess in
some ways the f.a.t slave is like another pc on a network
except just housed in one box. Not much experience, but
logically seems okay... would worry a bit if we were
talking single drive partitions, but that may be okay
too... It's possible to have 2 completely different
operating systems on one partitioned drive (as is fat &
ntfs) even as diverse as windows and linux.

Shame windows and mac aren't so compatible... still i can
dream can't i?!

[Sabyasachi Basu]

I have XP installed on an NTFS partition and Win98 on a FAT 32 partition on
the *same* drive and it works fine for me.

> wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Here's a question:
> >
> >I'm running Windows XP home. My master HD is NTFS while
> my
> >slave is FAT32. The system runs fine as is - no dropped
> >frames - no crashes - nothing to complain about.
> >
> >Is this a stable configuration, or should I reformat my
> >slave from FAT32 to NTFS???
> >
> >Anyone have experience in this area???
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >David jensen
> >.
> >
>
> Sounds good to me; you can store all your private stuff
> in ntfs and share your fat on a virtual network. Some
> networks do the same for security reasons. I guess in
> some ways the f.a.t slave is like another pc on a network
> except just housed in one box. Not much experience, but
> logically seems okay... would worry a bit if we were
> talking single drive partitions, but that may be okay
> too... It's possible to have 2 completely different
> operating systems on one partitioned drive (as is fat &
> ntfs) even as diverse as windows and linux.
>
> Shame windows and mac aren't so compatible... still i can
> dream can't i?!