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fat 32 and ntfs (xp)

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by jmiker Feb 6, 2004 last reply Feb 17, 2004

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if i have a slave that is formated and partioned with a fat32 will xp ntfs recognize it?

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Yes, XP is backwards compatible as far as the format:

XP will see - Fat16, Fat32, NTFS

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the answer given in answer 1 is correct.it will
recognize FAT 32 AND FAT 16.

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XP recognizes all the partitions formatted with either NTFS 5.0 or lower and all the FAT type partions.

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