FAT32 with NTFS

[PardeGT]

I will be building a computer for a friend whose current system has 2 hdd's (Fat32 w/ win98). The first hdd is an older 2gb ata33 drive that held his os and will be scrapped. The second is a 6gb ata66 hdd and holds data for his Ancestry software. The ancestry software itself is installed on the first drive with the os.

The new system is going to have a 30+ gb WD drive in it seperated into 3 or so partitions running NTFS w/ win2k. The first partion will be the os and one of the other partitions will be for the Ancestry data transfered from the 6gb hdd. The 6gb hdd will then be dumped and used for now as a backup drive (until he has more than 6gb to back up).

Ok, my question is do you see any problems setting this up since the data is currently setup on Fat32? Will the ancestry software having problems when accessing the data?

I just want to be sure as he has quite an extensive amount of info for both sides of his family that he has spent many hours on collecting and catoragizing.

Thanks.

[Tuf]

Is his ancestry software compatible with Win2000?

If so NTFS will be fine and actually preferred IMO.

[doctorgonzo]

NTFS will be fine. When the software reads or saves a file, it essentially just tells Windows "I want this file." For the most part, the software doesn't care what kind of file system is being used; it is the job of Windows to translate that request for a file into the proper commands to access the file system.

[PardeGT]

Thanks guys - my thoughts were correct then. :)