file system

[valver]

hi,
a friend of mine has an old cumputer with win 95. she is now getting a new laptop and she wants to transfer a bunch of files from the old one to the new (that will probably be a win xp machine). what was the file system of the 95? was it fat32? is it comatible with the fat32 of the xp?
TIA, david

[pave_spectre]

The file system on either computer is usually irrelevant when transferring files from one computer to another, so files can easily be moved from 95 to XP without a problem.
How is she planning to transfer them? Windows floppies are all the same, CD formats should all be the same and when transferring via a network connection the file system is completely irrelevant. And fat32 is fat32 whatever the OS.

Unless you were placing a hard drive formatted in NTFS into a 95 or 98 PC the you wouldnt be able to read it..

Just for interests sake the files system was fat16 in 95a and fat32 in 95b/98.

[Paul Komski]

Just to elaborate on the relative unimportance of the file system in this regard - consider that whenever any files are copied onto a floppy they will all then be on FAT16 - and yet all the OSes can read the floppy - and the files would have been on a different format (from 95b onwards) before they were copied to the floppy. As soon as they are copied back they take on the file system of where they have now been placed.

Leaving aside FAT12, FAT16 can be thought of, in blood group terminology, as a sort of universal donor! LOL ;)