Can an external hard drive be used between different OSs

[debodun]

If I wanted to copy and transfer files, like photos, form a Windows 98 OS to a computer with a Windows 7 OS, would an external HD be compatible between them?

 

[samuria]

What version of 98? The drive will work on any system but the old 98 only used fat later versions used fat32. So you would need to create a fat or fat32 partition so 98 can see it fat is limited in size

 

[debodun]

What version of 98?

Second Edition

 

[samuria]

That should see fat32 ok

 

[atoms88]

I'm no expert so forgive if I'm making a fool out of myself. In the past when I've had to change computers I just email my stuff to myself using a second email address. I have sent files and photos from one OS to another successfully before. Do people still use FTP? I know that works on very large files.

 

[samuria]

There are loads of options now save files to ms one drive or Google drive and sync on another PC so they give you 15gigs each. You can use ftp