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| 57374 | 2002-06-26 02:15:00 | I have an HDD with some stuff on it that I wish to keep. It has Win 95 Release A on it , therefore FAT 16. Out of curiosity I was wondering which other OSs (on master drives) that drive could be hooked to as a slave and still be read without problems - Win 95B (with FAT 32) Win 98 (with FAT 32) ME (? FAT) WP (? FAT) I would appreciate some comments. T I A. |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 57375 | 2002-06-26 05:05:00 | Linux will do it. ]:) (Probably all of the MS ones will too). I don't think Mac OS will ... | Graham L (2) | ||
| 57376 | 2002-06-26 10:32:00 | Should run on all win versions except XP with NTFS file system. | cadifan (286) | ||
| 57377 | 2002-06-26 20:59:00 | XP will read it OK as well. As far as I know all Windows OS are backward compatable with FAT 16 | godfather (25) | ||
| 57378 | 2002-06-27 06:23:00 | Will only run on XP if XP is on FAT system. If XP is NTFS I don't think it will work. I don't think it is compatible with FAT. | cadifan (286) | ||
| 57379 | 2002-06-27 06:37:00 | If you read or write a floppy with XP, you are using FAT12. MS have to have the backwards compatibility so that people can upgrade. It's much harder to have forwards compatibility: W3.x and W95 can't read NTFS, because it wasn't invented then. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 57380 | 2002-06-27 06:57:00 | Ok thanks, I stand corrected . Obviously the guy in the computer shop knew squat, as always! |
cadifan (286) | ||
| 57381 | 2002-06-27 08:06:00 | Intresting also that NT4 cant read FAT32 only Fat16 and NTFS | Orac (656) | ||
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