Stupid Question but I need to know

[Carolyn]

If Windows XP has a different file system than Windows 98, can I still back
up essential files over my network to a Windows 98 computer?
If I have to import them from a Windows 98 computer back to my XP, will they
work OK?
Carolyn

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

If Windows XP has a different file system than Windows 98, can I still back
up essential files over my network to a Windows 98 computer?
If I have to import them from a Windows 98 computer back to my XP, will they
work OK?

Yes they work OK - the files system running on the source machine is not
relevant to the file system running on the target machine when you are
copying files between 2 machines in your network.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The file systems on the various computers communicating over
a network are completely irrelevant, as none of the individual
computers' operating systems ever directly access the other computers'
hard drives. Instead, a computer sends a "request," if you will, for
the desired data, and the operating system of the host ("receiving")
computer accesses its own hard drive (whose file system it obviously
can read) and then sends that data back to the requesting computer as
neutral packets of information that are completely independent of the
file systems on the respective computers. After all, don't you use a
Windows-based PC (whether it's FAT32 or NTFS) to access data stored on
the Internet's mostly Unix servers, which use a completely different
file system?


Bruce Chambers

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[Carolyn]

If Windows XP has a different file system than Windows 98, can I still back
up essential files over my network to a Windows 98 computer?

Yes. The file system is only the concern of the machine where a file is
currently held. Think of it like two offices - one with old fashioned
box files on shelvers (FAT); one with suspended folders in cabinets
(NTFS) - you can move letters around between the two and the paper is
the same


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)\

Thanks to you and Bruce for your responses. I was getting a little freaky
wondering if I was doing the right thing by backing up my important XP files
to the Windows 98 system. If I couldn't import them back to the XP and use
them, this would have been a very dumb idea indeed.
Of course, this is a secondary back up with the first backup being a cloned
drive but I believe in having as many back ups as possible.
Thanks again,
Carolyn