help: convert ms access from FAT format to NT format

[maxima]

I need help on converting Microsoft access from win98 FAT format to
WinXP home NT access format.

I recently bought an off-lease IBM for $299, loaded with winXP home and
office 2000. I activated it and thought I could easily convert my win98
office 2000 access files.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. It kept telling me it couldn't
convert the old files copied form win98 HD.

Please help.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

I need help on converting Microsoft access from win98 FAT format to
WinXP home NT access format.

I recently bought an off-lease IBM for $299, loaded with winXP home
and office 2000. I activated it and thought I could easily convert
my win98 office 2000 access files.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. It kept telling me it couldn't
convert the old files copied form win98 HD.

Please help.

I don't have any idea what you are doing. FAT is File Allocation Table.
It is the way the hard drive is formatted and has nothing to do with
Microsoft Access. Microsoft Windows NT (aka XP) can use either FAT 32 or
(I forget the other format name) The newer format allows larger files than
FAT 32 .

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

I don't have any idea what you are doing. FAT is File Allocation
Table. It is the way the hard drive is formatted and has nothing to do
with Microsoft Access. Microsoft Windows NT (aka XP) can use either FAT
32 or (I forget the other format name) The newer format allows larger
files than FAT 32 .

The format name you've forgotten is "NTFS"

 

[DL]

Perhaps you could give the 'exact err msg' and how 'exactly' you
copied/accessed the old Access files.
PS Winxp, if using NTFS can see and work with a FAT file system.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

The format name you've forgotten is "NTFS"

Yea, that's it. I just formatted a drive on my "server" in the
basement. The backup from my computer has become too large for FAT 32.