NTFS hard drive

[windowshelp]

I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

You may need to take ownership of files/folders on that drive in order to
access them, but this isn't too hard. Don't encrypt anything on that drive
or you're SOL.

windowshelp wrote:
> I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
> running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
> plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
> another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?

[Randy Byrne [MVP]]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:1132925

Yes, BUT...

If you have explicit file/folder rights setup or you have encrypted folders or files,
they will not be readable.

Randy


"windowshelp" > wrote in message
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> I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
> running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
> plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
> another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?

[Pavel]

It will. If there are files on this drive that are encrypted then these
files will not be readable by another computer unless you created an
recovery certificate on the originating computer and transported this
certificate to the new computer. See your help screen on your PC for more
info about this.

--
Pavel


"windowshelp" > wrote in message
...
>I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
> running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
> plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
> another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?

[zag]

If your files are encrypted you wouldn't really want them
to be read by another computer would you? Unless the
other computer has the key, of course.
z -------------------------------------------------------

>-----Original Message-----
>You may need to take ownership of files/folders on that
drive in order to
>access them, but this isn't too hard. Don't encrypt
anything on that drive
>or you're SOL.
>
>windowshelp wrote:
>> I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
>> running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
>> plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
>> another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?
>
>
>.
>

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

zag wrote:
> If your files are encrypted you wouldn't really want them
> to be read by another computer would you?

If the other computer was mine, I guess I would - but EFS scares me,
frankly.

> Unless the
> other computer has the key, of course.

Natch. ;-)
> z -------------------------------------------------------
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> You may need to take ownership of files/folders on that drive in
>> order to access them, but this isn't too hard. Don't encrypt
>> anything on that drive or you're SOL.
>>
>> windowshelp wrote:
>>> I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
>>> running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
>>> plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
>>> another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?
>>
>>
>> .

[Al Dykes]

In article >,
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] hoo.com> wrote:
>You may need to take ownership of files/folders on that drive in order to
>access them, but this isn't too hard. Don't encrypt anything on that drive
>or you're SOL.
>
>windowshelp wrote:
>> I have an external usb hard drive formated in ntfs. i am
>> running windows xp. if my computer crashes, can i just
>> plug my external hard drive into another computer. will
>> another computer read this hard drive if it's running xp?
>
>

If you run with administrator privilages you should be OK. I move
NTFS file systems between machines all the time.


--
Al Dykes
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adykes at p a n i x . c o m

[TJF]

As long as the system you are connecting to supports NTFS and you haven't specifcally added sharing rights to your files as noted before, you should be ok. It doesn't even have to be a WinXP machine, I have an external USB NTFS drive and I have put it int
o another WinXP machine, a Win2k machine, and even a Mac.