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
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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?!

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.

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-----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?!