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Old 02 January 2004, 10:50 PM
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Hey up,
Can XP recognise fat32 and ntfs?? as I have got stuff on a old hard drive(FAT32) I want to keep/transfer over after I have installed XP on the new (NTFS) hard drive?

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Old 02 January 2004, 10:51 PM
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Yup. It's NTFS that is the odd one, only NT based OS can recognise it.
Old 02 January 2004, 10:55 PM
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Yes, you can transfer your files over from a Fat32 hard disk to your NTFS hard disk, just connect the old drive making sure its set to Slave then when xp has loaded you will see your old hard disk is drive D:

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Nice One,
How about that for a quick reply

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