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Old October 10th 04, 04:59 PM
Bruce Chambers
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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.


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Dagmar



The file systems on the various computers communicating over a
network are completely irrelevant, as none of the individual
computers' operating systems ever directly access the other computers'
hard drives. Instead, a computer sends a "request," if you will, for
the desired data, and the operating system of the host ("receiving")
computer accesses its own hard drive (whose file system it obviously
can read) and then sends that data back to the requesting computer as
neutral packets of information that are completely independent of the
file systems on the respective computers. After all, don't you use a
Windows-based PC (whether it's FAT32 or NTFS) to access data stored on
the Internet's mostly Unix servers, which use a completely different
file system?

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