XP and win98 with NTFS and FAT 32

Hi all... pls clear my doubt!!!

I have an 80 gb hardisk.. im a musician.. i had partitioned my hardisk and have five drives...

C: has Win 98 installed..
D: has Win Xp prof installed.. and all my music softwares
E: have installed games
F,G i use both for storing various files..

all the above have FAT 32 as the file system..

since there is a limitation on the file size (for Fat 32{4gb}) i was wondering if i could Reformatmy G drive into NTFS... i wanted to know if any of my softwares would stop recognizing the files on NTFS... and sometimes... music softwares use tracks where certin files would be on F drive and others on G drive... so if a reformat G into NTFS will the software puke an error...??

i do realise that win98 will not recognise NTFS... but since C is a boot drive.. will the reformatiing hav any effect on this ??

Please help thank you!!!!

 

Hello ncognitokewl,

My understanding is that you want to change G to NTFS which XP and it's software would access.

For the record, I have two XP's dual booting - one NTFS, the other FAT32. The FAT32 XP and its apps don't have any problems with any files on the NFTS XP. But I don't have split files sometimes... music softwares use tracks where certin files would be on F drive and others on G drive... Outside of that, and I don' know whether that would create a problem or not, I don't see any other problems.

But keep in mind, this change can't be reversed.

Make sure that you have all the data backed up.

Backing up the data would allow you to reformat the G partition to FAT32 again and re load the data.

Regards - Charles

 

Since your music software is installed on the XP drive, there should be no problem for the music software to access the NTFS drive and the FAT32 drive.

Any software on the 98 partition would not see the NTFS drive.

Hope that's clear for you.

 

thanksssssssssssssssssssss~~!!

thanks guys... i shall try reformatting and checking the softwares.... if it does throw up some prob shall format it back to FAT32... thanks for your invaluable suggestions!!!