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01-16-2003, 08:35 PM
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Opening WinXP floppies on Win98SE
Do the floppies need to be formatted in the Win98SE machine first?
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01-16-2003, 09:25 PM
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01-17-2003, 03:55 AM
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So, if I save something on a WinXP (NTFS) formatted floppy, I should be able to read it on a Win98SE (FAT32) machine?
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01-17-2003, 07:17 AM
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WIN98 cannot read NTFS. However I do not believe XP creates floppies as NTFS. I believe they are created simply as FAT.
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01-17-2003, 07:58 AM
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I never heard tell of a floppy being formatted as ntfs either. I don't believe floppies are large enough for it to be worth it even if you could format them with ntfs format.
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01-17-2003, 08:38 AM
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01-17-2003, 08:46 AM
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My copy of XP will not even give option to format a floppy as NTFS, only FAT Chas |
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01-17-2003, 08:57 AM
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OK - thanks for all the replies.
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01-17-2003, 09:27 AM
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Floppies don't use NTFS, they don't use FAT32, I believe they don't even use FAT16, it's FAT8 or something like that I believe.
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01-17-2003, 07:10 PM
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xp formats fd in fat 32
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01-17-2003, 08:14 PM
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It does? My XP shows only FAT, 512Kb per cluster which is a standard format for a 1.44Mb floppy.
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01-18-2003, 07:30 PM
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my mistake sorry it's fat just like ya said
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