At 04:45 PM 11/6/2003, Raymond Horton wrote: >The old hard disk is in the FAT32 format, the new one NTFS. This causes >problems when I try to access old files, especially my Finale files.
WinXP should have no problems reading a FAT32 drive -- I do it all the time.
>directions for converting the entire drive to NTFS, but I am very nervous >about this, fearing that I the resulting .MUS files may be unusable.
Again, you shouldn't have to convert the drive to read it, but converting it doesn't change the contents of the file. I routinely move files back and forth between NTFS and FAT32 drives under Win2000 and WinXP.
>I have painstakenly copied all of the Finale files that I can access, but >several of my newer files (mostly ones I created or changed under XP) are >not accessible. Typically, when I click on a folder I get "that drive is >not formatted - do you wish to format?"
You had said that you were having a series of hardware problems -- were any of them relating to a failing hard drive? It sounds like whatever is going on here may be related to the problems on your old system, but I don't think they're related to the file system.
I'm assuming that you've stuck the old drive in the new machine as a secondary drive -- that is, the new machine is still booting up from the new drive, and then you're accessing files on the old drive. If you're actually trying to boot up from the old drive, that might give you a whole different set of problems.
Aaron.
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