Safe sharing with XP (NTFS)on one Drive, Me (FAT32) on the other

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I have on the same PC two hard drives...One has WinXP Pro
(NTFS) and the other has WinMe (Fat32).I use a third party
Boot manager (BootItNG) to boot to either one.
When I boot to the WinMe Drive I can only see that drive
(which was what I expected).
When I boot to the WinXP Drive, I can see both Drives.
My question ( and this may be foolish) is whether I can
safely read files from the WinMe Drive into the WinXP
Drive, process them using Apps on the XP Drive, and then
write them back to the WinMe Drive.
I'm worried that the Apps on the XP Drive won't realize
that they should write files back to the WinMe Drive as
FAT32 and instead try to write them as NTFS and corrupt
them.
This would work OK on a network system, but will it work
between two hard drives with different File systems on the
same PC.
Please Enlighten me.
Thanks,
Mike
 
Mike said:
I have on the same PC two hard drives...One has WinXP Pro
(NTFS) and the other has WinMe (Fat32).I use a third party
Boot manager (BootItNG) to boot to either one.
When I boot to the WinMe Drive I can only see that drive
(which was what I expected).
When I boot to the WinXP Drive, I can see both Drives.
My question ( and this may be foolish) is whether I can
safely read files from the WinMe Drive into the WinXP
Drive, process them using Apps on the XP Drive, and then
write them back to the WinMe Drive.
I'm worried that the Apps on the XP Drive won't realize
that they should write files back to the WinMe Drive as
FAT32 and instead try to write them as NTFS and corrupt
them.
This would work OK on a network system, but will it work
between two hard drives with different File systems on the
same PC.
Please Enlighten me.
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Yes. Windows XP supports reading files from and writing files to both
NTFS and FAT32 partitions.

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WinXP can read FAT12 (the file system used on 3.5" diskettes),
FAT16, FAT32, CDFS (the file system used on most CDs), and NTFS with
equal facility. Further, the file system on any one disk/partition or
diskette has absolutely no affect upon the operating system's ability
to read other compatible file systems on other disks/partitions.


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