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NTFS is the best format to use. It has more fault tolerance than FAT. Which
is to say, it HAS fault tolerance. Further it is more economical that FAT
and has security built into it.

The only reason to have FAT32 would be if you wanted to dual boot a Pc
between XP and Win98.

There will be no issues with file sharing between to different PCs. Just
make sure that the permissions are correctly set if you get "Access Denied"
messages.




"Huey" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all again,
>
> Having 2 98se computers on my network with my xp pro, is it wise to
> convert the xp to ntfs? For every 2 persons, I have gotten 3
> opinions. Will I have trouble reading xp files from the 98 computers?
>
> Any thoughts on this?
> Regards,
> Huey

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 16:11:28 -0700, Phil L B wrote:

> You know XP doesn't use NTFS but the next level up HPFS, it' either
> FAT32 or HPFS.

Huh? HPFS is OS/2. XP is not OS/2.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...filesystem.asp

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"Phil L. B." <> wrote in message
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> You know XP doesn't use NTFS but the next level up HPFS, it' either
> FAT32 or HPFS.

(cough) HPFS, or High Performance Filing System, was discontinued
in the NT family with NT 4.0 ... and it's the OS/2 filing system.

No, XP uses NTFS. Says so, right on the box and with all CURRENT
disk utilities.

RwP

Try reading an XP partioned drive my Fdisk labels it as HPFS

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:07:17 -0500, "Ralph Wade Phillips"
<> wrote:

>Howdy!
>
>"Phil L. B." <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>
>
>> You know XP doesn't use NTFS but the next level up HPFS, it' either
>> FAT32 or HPFS.
>
> (cough) HPFS, or High Performance Filing System, was discontinued
>in the NT family with NT 4.0 ... and it's the OS/2 filing system.
>
> No, XP uses NTFS. Says so, right on the box and with all CURRENT
>disk utilities.
>
> RwP
>

My fdisk lists the XP partition as HPFS

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:07:17 -0500, "Ralph Wade Phillips"
<> wrote:

>Howdy!
>
>"Phil L. B." <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>
>
>> You know XP doesn't use NTFS but the next level up HPFS, it' either
>> FAT32 or HPFS.
>
> (cough) HPFS, or High Performance Filing System, was discontinued
>in the NT family with NT 4.0 ... and it's the OS/2 filing system.
>
> No, XP uses NTFS. Says so, right on the box and with all CURRENT
>disk utilities.
>
> RwP
>

Sorry for the double post firewall glitch.

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:07:17 -0500, "Ralph Wade Phillips"
<> wrote:

>Howdy!
>
>"Phil L. B." <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>
>
>> You know XP doesn't use NTFS but the next level up HPFS, it' either
>> FAT32 or HPFS.
>
> (cough) HPFS, or High Performance Filing System, was discontinued
>in the NT family with NT 4.0 ... and it's the OS/2 filing system.
>
> No, XP uses NTFS. Says so, right on the box and with all CURRENT
>disk utilities.
>
> RwP
>

Howdy!

"Phil L. B." <> wrote in message
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> My fdisk lists the XP partition as HPFS

Your OLD FDISK lists NTFS as HPFS. That was fixed with MSDOS 7.1
(aka Win9.

They use the same partition value, but are slightly different. You
can think of HPFS from Microsoft as NTFS v1.x and 2.x .

RwP

Howdy!

"Phil L. B." <> wrote in message
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> Try reading an XP partioned drive my Fdisk labels it as HPFS

Funny, Win98SE reads it as NTFS. Try a newer versin of FDISK.

And try reading sometimes. Or using your brain.

RwP