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Old October 10th 04, 05:18 AM
Ron Martell
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Default Formating a hard drive in windows xp

Dagmar wrote:


How to format a hard dirve in windows xp as a fat32. I want to be able
to save windows 98 files on a hard disk in windows xp on the network.


There is no such thing as "windows 98 files".

If your computer is on the network and the drive is being shared then
any computer on the network can access the files on the shared drive,
even if it is NTFS and the other computer(s) on the network are
running Windows 95/98/Me.

All disk access is done by the computer the drive is installed in,
even when the drive is being accessed from another computer on the
network.

The only time you have a concern is if your computer is configured to
boot up 2 or more operating systems and one or more of these are
Windows 95/98/Me. Then you would need to have FAT32 drives/partitions
to install these operating system onto and for any files they needed
to access.

But in a network situation the file system used by a drive is only
relevant to the computer the drive is installed in.

Good luck


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