Lac3y Daemon Poster Messages 1,110 May 4, 2006 #11 natej315 said: NTFS all the way its faster and more secure! and I think its required for Windows XP Click to expand... Nope, I formatted my old laptop in FAT32 loads of times.
natej315 said: NTFS all the way its faster and more secure! and I think its required for Windows XP Click to expand... Nope, I formatted my old laptop in FAT32 loads of times.
D Deathstar1 BSOD Messages 756 May 4, 2006 #12 Kage said: What you can't do however, is run like Windows 98 on one drive, and have an NTFS partitioned drive running as slave. it just won't see it... Click to expand... Basically correct, NTFS can read a FAT32 formatted drive but FAT32 can't read a NTFS drive without third party software Lac3y said: Nope, I formatted my old laptop in FAT32 loads of times. Click to expand... Correct, XP will run on FAT32
Kage said: What you can't do however, is run like Windows 98 on one drive, and have an NTFS partitioned drive running as slave. it just won't see it... Click to expand... Basically correct, NTFS can read a FAT32 formatted drive but FAT32 can't read a NTFS drive without third party software Lac3y said: Nope, I formatted my old laptop in FAT32 loads of times. Click to expand... Correct, XP will run on FAT32
Kage Golden Master Messages 13,873 May 4, 2006 #13 Ah right, but most people won't have that third party software I know I didn't!