Karen, Not true, that DOS programs will only run on NTFS. It maybe that you cannot BOOT a DOS diskette or boot sector and have it find the NTFS drive, but DOS programs run fine, including ALL versions of R:Base for DOS.
NTFS is a much much better file system than FAT. It provides better security and if more efficient, and I think even has features that provide some automatic maintenance. I haven't run FAT32 since I was an OS/2 person using the predecessor to NTFS, HPFS. I have run a zillion versions of R:Base for DOS, and a very old version of Managing Your Money in XP with NTFS, and NT with NTFS before that. The only DOS programs I have found that will not run in a XP that might have run in Win98 are DOS programs that try to directly control hardware, and not go through the OS to get to the hardware. You shouldn't be running DOS programs that old, anyway. Hope I'm not to late to prevent you from reformatting. On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:00:34 -0500, tellef wrote: >Well, my love affair with Toshiba laptops has ended. Just >got a new Satellite to replace my Toshiba Win98 machine. >Just for giggles, I checked the file system installed and >it's NTFS. I've read that only FAT32 will run DOS programs. >Called Toshiba, they say that they never install FAT32, that >there's recovery discs included where I can reformat and do >it myself but it invalidates the warranty. The reformatting >isn't a big deal, I have no software loaded yet. > >So I want verification that all you guys running RBase DOS >programs on an XP machine are using FAT32, or can you use >NTFS? If you don't know how to check, My Computer, click >on hard drive, right click Properties. It will show the >file system.
