On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > I once installed win98 on a machine that had previously > been an NT-only box and, indeed, win98 basically refused > to have anything to do with the NTFS partitions.
The original release of Win95 supported FAT16 at best. Win95 OSR (OEM Service Release 2.0) introduced FAT32. Win98 and WinME also support FAT32. No version of Win9X supports NTFS. The original release of Windows NT (version 3.0) supported FAT16 and NTFS. Windows NT 4.0 added support for Win95-style LFNs (Long File Names) on top of FAT to NT. Windows NT did not get FAT32 support until version 5.0 (Windows 2000). > So, it seems that one clunky alternative might be to use the best > (rather than the suggested lowest-common-denominator) > partition/filesystem layout and then boot Linux to transfer data between > the various worlds if your need to do so were rare enough... Except that NTFS write support in Linux is badly broken. If you are really lucky, and you run several repair tools after using it, you might lose only some data. Reasons for this are many, but they mainly come down to the fact that Microsoft threatens to sue anyone who tries to develop a third-party NTFS implementation. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
