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Because the file formats used on Windows NT and Me are compatible, you can restore or retrieve files from one system type to another. This is called cross-client restore. For example, if you archive a file from a Windows NT workstation, you can retrieve that file to a Windows Me workstation.
Attention: You must have the appropriate permissions to access the file spaces of the other workstation, as explained in Authorizing Another User to Restore or Retrieve Your Files and Restoring or Retrieving Another User's Files.
Although each client can recover data from each of these file systems, some restrictions apply when recovering files that were backed up or archived from a drive that the client does not support. For example:
Windows NT clients can recover files from the Windows 2000; however, unique Windows 2000 attributes may be lost during recovery.
Windows 2000, XP, and Windows.Net clients have no restrictions when recovering files.
When you use the Windows NT client to recover files with long names to an NTFS disk, the long names are preserved, even if you are recovering the file to a different type of drive than the source drive.
The considerations for retrieving files are the same as for restoring them.