FAT32 to NTFS

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a couple of years ago, i purchased my pentium 4 with a 40 gig harddrive. it came loaded with windows xp in FAT32 format. i recently purchased xp-pro and wanted to convert to NTFS format. setup seemed to do the 'new installation' fine, but when i explore the c directory, i noticed that in the WINDOWS folder there is both a 'system' folder and a 'system32' folder. can i safely delete the 'system32' folder without affecting my system's operation?
 
mandydog said:
a couple of years ago, i purchased my pentium 4 with a 40 gig harddrive.
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it came loaded with windows xp in FAT32 format. i recently purchased xp-pro
and wanted to convert to NTFS format. setup seemed to do the 'new
installation' fine, but when i explore the c directory, i noticed that in
the WINDOWS folder there is both a 'system' folder and a 'system32' folder.
can i safely delete the 'system32' folder without affecting my system's
operation?

No. They are both required Windows XP OS folders. Did you try checking the
contents?

Don
 
mandydog said:
a couple of years ago, i purchased my pentium 4 with a 40 gig
harddrive. it came loaded with windows xp in FAT32 format. i recently
purchased xp-pro and wanted to convert to NTFS format. setup seemed
to do the 'new installation' fine, but when i explore the c
directory, i noticed that in the WINDOWS folder there is both a
'system' folder and a 'system32' folder. can i safely delete the
'system32' folder without affecting my system's operation?
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The "32" in "system32" does not have anything to do with whether your disk
is fat32 or NTFS. I doubt very much if you would be able to delete this, but
as your windows install would break down without that folder, I suggest you
don't try ;-) . As Don says, both the system and system32 folders are a
required component of Windows XP.

To be sure if your disk partitions are formatted in NTFS, open 'My
Computer', right click on each hard disk partition you have (presumably at
least the "C:\" drive if nothing else) and choose properties. The file
system in use for that partition is recorded under the "general" tab.


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