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Blake's7 · 06-07-2009, 01:13 PM

Hi! I'm not sure I'm in the right forum, but since it's about file systems...A friend has an old laptop that has had a few problems. At the present, the cd-rom drive doesn't work. His daughter has a couple of gigs of pictures on it that he wants to save. I figure I can use a flash drive to copy the pictures to my computer, then burn them to disc to copy to his desktop. The laptop is formatted in FAT32, and my computer is formatted in NTFS. If i use the flash drive on the laptop it's formatted in FAT32, and the file format is then FAT32. If I copy the files to the flash drive, and then copy them to the NTFS computer, they'll be converted to NTFS, right? Then if I burn them to a cd, they'll be in NTFS format, right? But when I copy them to his desktop, which is FAT32, then they'll be converted back to FAT32, right? Am I correct in these assumptions? Any and all responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks..

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Blake's7 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 62 OS: xp pro	FAT32 to NTFS And Back? Hi! I'm not sure I'm in the right forum, but since it's about file systems...A friend has an old laptop that has had a few problems. At the present, the cd-rom drive doesn't work. His daughter has a couple of gigs of pictures on it that he wants to save. I figure I can use a flash drive to copy the pictures to my computer, then burn them to disc to copy to his desktop. The laptop is formatted in FAT32, and my computer is formatted in NTFS. If i use the flash drive on the laptop it's formatted in FAT32, and the file format is then FAT32. If I copy the files to the flash drive, and then copy them to the NTFS computer, they'll be converted to NTFS, right? Then if I burn them to a cd, they'll be in NTFS format, right? But when I copy them to his desktop, which is FAT32, then they'll be converted back to FAT32, right? Am I correct in these assumptions? Any and all responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks..