Larian Studios Forums General Chat FAT32 and NFTS

well..
i had a feeling this could happen..
a friend of me had some files i wanted , and i had some things he wanted.
soo we could share this information , by making a cd-rom.
and exange the data
BUT. i thought, why bothering to make some cd roms, if i can just take my harddisk with me
to his place and put it in his computer and we exange he files that way.
i didn't had a labtop soo taking my whole pc with me wasn't an option.

fine.
we had both winXp pro
my harddisk is formatted in NFTS
and his one was in FAT32. (i found that out later on)
now, after the data exange.
i went home and i found out that a could open some of the exanged files. but lots of them i couldn't open.

my gess is that i copied a file in FAT32 wich isn't readable on a NTFS partition.
he had the same problem.

strange however , some of the files i could open!
mostely the files i couldn't open were files made in a folder.

question. can i find a program that detects if a File is in FAT;FAT32 or NFTS.
AND can covert this FILE?( yep file, not partition)

FAT32 to NFTS and vica versa.??

normally i find that NTFS can read FAT32, but not vice versa.

will have to look into that, bean ol' bud. i haven't experience such things. yet.

edit: oh yes, i remember! both of u are using winXP OS so i think; by default all files in WinXP & Win2K are encrypted & therefore won't be accessible by others. this is weird. by right WinXP will not show u even the drives as they are also encrypted.

I don't know whether this helps, but www.sysinternals.com has a driver for NTFS ...

I don't have xp, so I can't say whether it can read fat32 ("the fat man"), but at the point when fat32 was brand-new, (Win95 c or b) no OS could read it, not even NT or w2k at that time.

I think janggut could be rith with the encryption, but since I don't have eXperience Points, I cannot say. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

EDIT : what aout the User Rights on these files ? Aren't they copied, too ?

well,
i found some info on encripted files txs to @Janggut.
but the files i have on my harddisk are NOt encrypted.
You see encrypted files as a letter "E" in windows explorer (detail vieuw)
mine files all have the letter "A" after them.

i will check out @Alrik's link also.

thwx for the info guys! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

That's bizare. I thought the OS, what ever OS you decide to use, would read the NTSF file and save it as a FAT32 file, or vica versa.

Does it make a difference which computer does the copying, sender or receiver?

i found a possible answer on a another forum at this link: neowin forum

but i find this hard to beleive...

Interesting post, bean.

I just realised. I have two partitions – one NTFS, one FAT16 – and I have no problems copying files back and forth, even with long file names, folders, etc.

I wonder if there are juper settings on the hard-drive you're not setting (such as Master/Slave, IDE port settings)?

well in the beginning , = the first time i plugged my hard disk in my friends computer (sound erotic isn't ? MMM..enough of freuds theory <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />)
the jumper configuration was wrong and the disk couldn't be recogniced. (secondary slave - onle this was connected)
then i changed it to secondary master.
and now Winxp did recogniced my HD.

after the copieing a put in my harddisk agian in my PC as primary slave.

result, bad files
on mine and his computer.

what i can try to do is put one file on a cdrom and see if i can read it from there.
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