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steveb1234 · 06-07-2009, 01:23 PM

The FAT32 and NTFS file systems refer to the way the HDD is formatted not the files recorded on them- it is ok to have a fat32 external drive connected to a computer with NTFS format hard disc drive. When you burn them to a cd the cd uses CDFS but this does not result in a conversion of the files that are recorded. FAT32 and NTFS and CDFS are disc formats and not file types. Also if you convert a HDD drive from FAT32 to NTFS you can't reverse the conversion but there is no need to do this anyway.

06-07-2009, 01:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
steveb1234 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 371 OS: xp, windows 7	Re: FAT32 to NTFS And Back? The FAT32 and NTFS file systems refer to the way the HDD is formatted not the files recorded on them- it is ok to have a fat32 external drive connected to a computer with NTFS format hard disc drive. When you burn them to a cd the cd uses CDFS but this does not result in a conversion of the files that are recorded. FAT32 and NTFS and CDFS are disc formats and not file types. Also if you convert a HDD drive from FAT32 to NTFS you can't reverse the conversion but there is no need to do this anyway. Last edited by steveb1234; 06-07-2009 at 01:25 PM.