I know with NT4.0Server you could have both NTFS and FAT on different partitions but boot to the same OS. Kind of like with Win98 you could have a Fat16 drive and a Fat32 Drive ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:15 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Off topic - my first XP computer BITES!
> Karen, > > You could try getting Partition Magic and creating a (small?) Dos partition. > Hopefully, using that won't invalidate your warranty - but check!! You might > find it a pain having to chose which operating system to boot into, > though... > > Regards, > Alastair. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "tellef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:00 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Off topic - my first XP computer BITES! > > > > > 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. > > > Karen > who is really ticked off at the moment > >
