Can floppy drive format floppy after change HD to NTFS

[Peter]

Hi Seniors,

I have XP PRO and use FAT32, computer works fine and
stable but it don't has the file security and compression
features. I want to change from FAT32 to NTFS using
partition magic 8.0.
But someone said that if I change to NTFS, the floppy
drive may not be able to format floppy disk. Is that true?

TIA

Peter

 

[Tom Lake]

I have XP PRO and use FAT32, computer works fine and

stable but it don't has the file security and compression
features. I want to change from FAT32 to NTFS using
partition magic 8.0.
But someone said that if I change to NTFS, the floppy
drive may not be able to format floppy disk. Is that true?

The two are totally unrelated. I have NTFS on all my XP boxes and can
format floppies on them with no problem.

Tom Lake

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

This is not true. Floppies are always formatted with a FAT filesystem.

Also, be aware that you can convert to NTFS by typing "convert c: /fs:ntfs"
at the command prompt.

Regards

Oli

 

[Jim Macklin]

I may be wrong, but don't floppies use a FAT12 format and
W95,98 used FAT16 and W98se allowed FAT32.


| This is not true. Floppies are always formatted with a
FAT filesystem.
|
| Also, be aware that you can convert to NTFS by typing
"convert c: /fs:ntfs"
| at the command prompt.
|
| Regards
|
| Oli
|
|
message
| | > Hi Seniors,
| >
| > I have XP PRO and use FAT32, computer works fine and
| > stable but it don't has the file security and
compression
| > features. I want to change from FAT32 to NTFS using
| > partition magic 8.0.
| > But someone said that if I change to NTFS, the floppy
| > drive may not be able to format floppy disk. Is that
true?
| >
| > TIA
| >
| > Peter
|
|

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

I think that is correct.