Re: (clug-talk) Re: Partitions and FIPS

[Trevor Lauder]

That and the fact that the NTFS filesystem used in Windows XP is not the same as the NTFS filesystem used in Windows 2000. They have changed it a little bit. -- Trevor Lauder Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Craig McLean said: > Actually FIPS does not support the NTFS file system. I would hope that > FIPS recognizes that your trying to resize an NTFS partition and doesn't > let you do it. If for some reason it goes ahead with the resize > operation your NTFS partition will be trashed. > > I did a search on groups.google and found that opinion varies widly on > FIPS compatibility with FAT32 partitions as well. YMMV with that as > well. The FIPS website indicates that the latest version of FIPS is > v2.0 and it hasn't been updated since 1998. About the time Win98 came > out and FAT32 was introduced. Since no explicit mention is made of > win98 or FAT32 I'm pretty confident in saying that it won't work.