NTFS file system questions

[Shinova]

If you create a file while under the NTFS system, can that file be uploaded to a server and viewed by FAT using people?

Also, can you use zip disks under the NTFS system? (especially if those zip disks were FAT in the first place)

And lastly, can you make a file under the NTFS system, carry it over in a disk or something to a FAT-using system (like win98) and use that file there?

[Dahak]

Yes.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

If you create a file while under the NTFS system, can that file be uploaded to a server and viewed by FAT using people?

Also, can you use zip disks under the NTFS system? (especially if those zip disks were FAT in the first place)

And lastly, can you make a file under the NTFS system, carry it over in a disk or something to a FAT-using system (like win98) and use that file there?

You can read FAT/FAT32 disks using Win2K or WinXP. In fact, I routinely use ZIP disks to transport files between my WinME home computer, the WinXP computers at work, and my Win2k laptop. You can also copy NTFS files from your hard disk to your FAT16 ZIP or floppy disk and transfer them over to a Win9X machine. What you can't do, however, is reformat the disk to use NTFS and expect the Win9X computer to be able to read your NTFS disk.

[Lord Edam]

If you create a file while under the NTFS system, can that file be uploaded to a server and viewed by FAT using people?

Provided the FAT-users can read from the server (local access, FTP, shared directories) yes.

Also, can you use zip disks under the NTFS system? (especially if those zip disks were FAT in the first place)

Most systems that can read NTFS(Windows NT/2000/XP) can read FAT, so yes generally NTFS "systems" can read FAT zip disks. If you had some weird system that could ONLY read NTFS(?WinNT3 maybe?) then obviously the Zip disk would have to be in NTFS to work.

You can also format ZIP disks as NTFS (can't do floppies as NTFS though), but then the computer you read them from has to be able to read NTFS.

And lastly, can you make a file under the NTFS system, carry it over in a disk or something to a FAT-using system (like win98) and use that file there?

Zip disks or floppy disks? If you use floppy disks, no problem. In windows floppy disks must be FAT, you have no choice in the matter.

If you want to use a zip disk, it depends how it's formatted. Windows 9x can't read NTFS on local drives, so the Zip disk MUST be formatted as FAT if you want to read it. Normally, this isn't a problem because Zip disks are formatted as FAT by default, but if you've specifically formatted the ZIP disk NTFS it won't work on systems that can't read NTFS.

[Pu-239]

Most win98 machines are FAT32, which NT4 can't read, though linux/2k/XP can.