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Win98 can't read FAT32 from Win2000
Name: Ben Date: September 21, 2002 at 20:25:30 Pacific OS: Windows 98 SE CPU/Ram: P3 450 MHz/384 Mb
Comment:
I have a hard drive from a Windows 2000 Server with one partition formatted as FAT32. I transferred the drive to a Windows 98 SE machine and the OS was able to see the FAT32 partition. The first level of folder names in the drive look OK, but when I drill down into the folders, the filenames have funny characters and I can't open any of the files.
Name: brown1955 Date: September 21, 2002 at 20:38:25 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like the files are NTFS. You can convert your entire system by going to start/run/command, then typing in convert(hard drive letter):/fs:/ntfs. You will not lose any info on your system. However you can not convert back.
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Response Number 2
Name: Date: September 22, 2002 at 01:43:34 Pacific
Reply:
It's aa '98 system, so converting the drive to ntfs (via '98??? - can't be done) via a W2K system - will render the drive totally inaccessible to '98...
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Response Number 3
Name: Ben Date: September 22, 2002 at 06:11:53 Pacific
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Stranger still, out of the twenty folders I have in the FAT32 partition, there is actually one folder where the contents are OK.
I plan to install Windows 2000 on this machine and use the FAT32 partition to share files between the two boots. Is this at all possible?
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