FAT and NTFS

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Mike Warnke

Can I slave a HD with WIN98SE OS to a system
using a HD with XP? Any problem with file structures?

TIA Mike
 
Yes and No.

XP can use it just fine. Depending on the system, you either jumper it Slave
or Cable Select. On many systems (Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.), it is Cable
Select.

Tom
 
Can I slave a HD with WIN98SE OS to a system using a HD with XP?
Yes.

Any problem with file structures?
Click to expand...

Nope.

XP can use both FAT and NTFS.
 
Mike said:
Can I slave a HD with WIN98SE OS to a system
using a HD with XP? Any problem with file structures?
Click to expand...

The potential gotcha is the possibility that the Win98SE drive was formatted
using an overlay. If that's the case then trying to access the drive from
XP will be problematical as XP doesn't have the overlay loaded.
 
J. Clarke said:
The potential gotcha is the possibility that the Win98SE drive was
formatted using an overlay. If that's the case then trying to access the
drive from XP will be problematical as XP doesn't have the overlay loaded.
Click to expand...

While some overlay programs may use a different partition layout, that doesn't
mean they all do.
 
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