Can Win 2000 Read Win 98 Partitions? 2

[dannybones]

My brother said they were incompatible. If I buy Win 2000, Delete my Win 98 Partition (C, & Install 2000, upgrade drivers, will I have trouble reading data on my old Win 98 Data Partition (D?

 

[mhughes]

The two systems are compatible. You will want to leave 98 on C and install W2K on D. If you want to share across the partitions install W2K as fat 32.

 

[Perra]

Hello!

If you format the WIN2K-partition with NTFS, you won´t be able to read it from WIN98. But the other way around will work fine...

NTFS is (well, probably not recognizable) a little slower than FAT32, because NTFS is implemented with higher-level and more sofisticated file-integrity checks when reading/writing to/from it.

Also, you can convert from FAT 32 to NTFS, but not the reverse. So, if you are unsecure which of the ones you want format the partition with FAT32 to begin with. For homeuse, you won´t experience any noticeable enhancements with NTFS...

 

[Guest_imported]

Yes, you can read the files in the Win98 partition with Win2000 regardless of whether win2000 is on a Fat32 or NTFS file system, as long as the win98 files have share permissions.

 

[wybnormal]

There is a driver for 98 to read the NTFS from SysInternals. This way 2K can read the 98 natively and now you read have 98 read the 2K "natively".

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml

Mike S
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