rsantos Posted April 24, 2006 CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 I'm getting a new computer. The old system uses WIN98. It has two hard drives one of which is a new 80gig Barracuda using FAT32. It is NOT the boot drive. The new system's hard drive uses NTFS with WinXP. What problems will I have installing and running the FAT32 drive as a second hard drive in the NTFS, WinXP system ?? TIA for all responses....................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted April 24, 2006 CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 So you will run a xp system with the boot drive as ntfs and a slave fat32? If this is correct it should work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted April 24, 2006 CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 Nothing, unless you run Win98 from the second drive and want to access the first drive. Win98 doesn't support NTFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted April 24, 2006 CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 Per microsoft: This check determines the file system of each hard drive, to ensure that the NTFS file system is being used. NTFS is a secured file system that allows you to control or restrict access to individual files or directories. For example, if you want to allow your coworkers to view your files, but not change them, you can do this by using the access control lists (ACLs) provided by NTFS. If you are running the FAT file system, which is not a secured file system, you should consider converting to the NTFS file system. Secured file systems, such as NTFS, are a key component of security, because they restrict user access to data. By using file system security, you can specify which users are allowed to access individual files and what type of access they are allowed (for example, read or modify). NTFS protects your data by preventing unwanted user access to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j3grizz Posted April 24, 2006 CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 I ran the same setup and it works fine. If security is needed NTFS would be the better route as tommie said. Welcome to the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted April 24, 2006 CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 Pardon my manners. Welcome to the forum rsantos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsantos Posted April 24, 2006 Author CID Share Posted April 24, 2006 Rich - Yes, that is correct. Thanks much to all for your input and the welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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