can ntfs read fat32?

[howhao]

if i have a drive partitioned into 2, XP installed on one of the partitions formatted using NTFS and the other part is formatted using FAT32. can I boot up XP in NTFS and read the FAT32 part of the HDD?

Thanks for the help

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: howhao
if i have a drive partitioned into 2, XP installed on one of the partitions formatted using NTFS and the other part is formatted using FAT32. can I boot up XP in NTFS and read the FAT32 part of the HDD?

Thanks for the help

Yes.

I used to keep a FAT32 partition on my XP systems so I could also read it from Linux.

 

[minibubba]

Both Windows XP and 2k can read and write to FAT32 partitions by default. NT4 on the otherhand, can't read FAT32 without 3rd party software.

Wreckage, almost all Linux distros can read NTFS out-of-the-box, but until very recently the ability to write to NTFS was rather unstable

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: minibubba
Wreckage, almost all Linux distros can read NTFS out-of-the-box, but until very recently the ability to write to NTFS was rather unstable

Yep. That's why I used FAT32 so that I could share files between the two.