fat32 to ntfs

[Richard]

I have installed a new hard drive as a slave to replace
old drive which is going bad. I partitioned new drive into
4 partitions: d:2392mb for Win2k e:737mb for swap files
f:15406 applications g: 20662 files.
The hard drive utility (max blast) will only format in
fat32. When installing Win 2k it asks to
Format the partition to Fat 32
Format the partition to NTFS
Convert the partition to NTFS

Should all partitions be converted to NTFS?
When going to convert d partition to NTFS it tells me that
I won't be able to access other drive which is win 98.
Should just d: remain fat 32 and others converted to NTFS?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

Win98 cannot read NTFS natively. So you're probably going to want to stay
with FAT32. FAT32 doesn't have file permissions--if you need to preserve
permissions, use NTFS.

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