From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 5:55:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.micronet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31818151A0 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 05:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from kisoft-services.com (Nantes4.francenet.net [193.149.110.68]) by logatome.micronet.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03403; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 14:51:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37D11616.81A7CFBE@kisoft-services.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 14:52:38 +0200 From: Eric MASSON Organization: Kisoft Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [fr] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: charon@freethought.org, Mark Allen Cockrum , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd/WinNT question.. References: <3.0.5.32.19990904013546.026f2e70@mail> <19990904114350.A290@marder-1> <37D0FD27.408435E2@kisoft-services.com> <19990904121731.A696@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens a écrit : > I'm not disputing what you say, it certainly seems logical, but > when you install NT, even on a virgin disk, it initially creates > it's partition as FAT and then converts it (thinking about it, the > program is called CONVERT.EXE) to NTFS at the first re-boot so does > this problem/limitation not exist anyway? Well, if you install NT straight out of the box, you're right, there's a tip to overcome this problem. First install NT, without this problem in mind (minimal install, it will be destroyed). Create a second partition and format it (NTFS) from disk manager. Reinstall NT on the freshly formatted NTFS partition (Leave the file system intact). Now your NT box has a correct NTFS formatted disk. Eric -- Any opinions expressed above | Murphy's Law Corollary : are my own, not Kisoft's | Murphy was an optimist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message