Are you concerned about moving files from a floppy disk to your hard drive?
I doubt that Win 98 was using Fat 16, because the partition had to be
smaller than 2 GB in order to use Fat 16.
The operating system is what uses the file system.
XP will use Fat 12, 16, 32, and NTFS.
--
Ronald Sommer

"dave" wrote in message
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: ...hi all
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: ....a question about migrating OE from win98 SE to winXP SP-2.....
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: ...im concern-ed about the file structure prob fat 16 (( i think on my win
: 98 SE box )) to NTFS on my winXP SP-2.....after i (( obvious-ly ))
transfer
: the file
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: can ?? this be done easily ?? or perhaps a utility that will
"UP-convert"
: OE ......??
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: ..please ad-vise
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: thank you in advance
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: dave
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