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Re: Another question for AARGH!

3/8/2004 6:53 AM
Steve A.	Re: Another question for AARGH! Bob: If you have room on your hard drives for a new partition you might try copying the whole Win98 partition(s) to it using MaxBlast (or whatever software came with your hard drives). As far as I remember I don't think that MaxBlast had any problem copying a FAT32 partition to NTFS. As for FAT32 vs. NTFS, I believe that the data in the files is identical- it is just the format of the media that is different. Another question for the experts- are the file attributes stored inside the file, or inside the FAT table? If they are stored in the file, does this change when you copy it from a FAT32 partition to a NTFS partition, or do all of the bits remain the same? BTW in switching from Win98 to WinXP or W2K what happens to the system attribute? I do not see that attribute displayed in either FAT32 or NTFS volumes under Win2K or WinXP. Steve Ahola P.S. One more experiment you might try is to move your old hard drive! Hook up the Win98 hard drive that you want to copy as a secondary drive in your XP machine just to see if it can properly access the files with that configuration. You might then try XXCOPY to transfer the files from the old hard to a partition on the new computer. (If you try dragging and dropping all of the files from a partition Windows Explorer will abort the copy if it runs across a hidden or system file that is in use or otherwise locked. I believe that XXCOPY will ignore errors like that and continue copying the rest of the files.)

3/8/2004 6:53 AM

Steve A.

Re: Another question for AARGH!

Bob:

    If you have room on your hard drives for a new partition you might try copying the whole Win98 partition(s) to it using MaxBlast (or whatever software came with your hard drives). As far as I remember I don't think that MaxBlast had any problem copying a FAT32 partition to NTFS.

    As for FAT32 vs. NTFS, I believe that the data in the files is identical- it is just the format of the media that is different. Another question for the experts- are the file attributes stored inside the file, or inside the FAT table? If they are stored in the file, does this change when you copy it from a FAT32 partition to a NTFS partition, or do all of the bits remain the same?

    BTW in switching from Win98 to WinXP or W2K what happens to the system attribute? I do not see that attribute displayed in either FAT32 or NTFS volumes under Win2K or WinXP.

Steve Ahola

P.S. One more experiment you might try is to move your old hard drive! Hook up the Win98 hard drive that you want to copy as a secondary drive in your XP machine just to see if it can properly access the files with that configuration. You might then try XXCOPY to transfer the files from the old hard to a partition on the new computer. (If you try dragging and dropping all of the files from a partition Windows Explorer will abort the copy if it runs across a hidden or system file that is in use or otherwise locked. I believe that XXCOPY will ignore errors like that and continue copying the rest of the files.)

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