From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Jan 5 14:49:48 2001 From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 14:49:44 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A4D37B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:49:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from c559307-a.home.com ([24.20.70.64]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010105224754.TVGV1118.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c559307-a.home.com> for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:47:54 -0800 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010105144917.00a66a80@mail.salem1.or.home.com> X-Sender: professional3d@mail.salem1.or.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:49:31 -0800 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: xavian anderson macpherson Subject: FAT32 for NT 4.0.htm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=======10CED16======="; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-357023B6 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --=======10CED16======= Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=====================_89130623==_"; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-357023B6 --=====================_89130623==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-357023B6 --=====================_89130623==_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-357023B6 FAT32 for NT 4.0
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Copyright © 1998 Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
Last Updated April 9, 1998, Version 1.01 Read-Only
Introduction FAT32 is a FAT32 file system driver for Windows NT 4.0. Once installed, any FAT32 drives present on your system will be fully accessible as native Windows NT volumes. This free version provides read-only capabilities. A read/write version is for sale at the Winternals Software web site.
Recommended FAT32 Configuration Do not convert your first partition, or your NT boot partition (the one with \winnt on it), to FAT32 as there is no support in Windows NT 4.0 for reading FAT32 drives during the boot sequence.

For maximum compatibility in dual boot systems, the recommended partition configuration is to maintain a FAT partition as the first partition on the primary drive. This partition should contain Windows 95/98 as well as Windows NT and should not be used to store applications or data files. The rest of the primary disk and any other disks should be formatted with FAT32.
Setting Up Your Partitions FAT32 for Windows NT does not make it possible to format new FAT32 drives on your Windows NT system, just view existing FAT32 drives. If you wish to benifit from the space efficiency advantages FAT32 has over FAT16 drives and are setting up a new computer, follow these steps.

When you partition the drive create at least two partitions: one for system files and one for data files. You may also choose to create two partitions for system files: one for Windows 9x and one for Windows NT. Of course, you may wish to create multiple data file partitions.

Install Windows 9x first, placing its system files (the \WINDOWS directory) on the first partition (the C:\ drive), which must be formatted as FAT16. Then format all the data drives as FAT32 drives. Finally, install Windows NT on either the C:\ drive, or the second system drive you created. The second system drive can be formatted as NTFS or FAT16. After installing FAT32 for Windows NT the data drives will be accessible (for read-only access) from Windows NT.
Compatibility FAT32 for Windows NT is fully compatible with all major NT applications. However, with the read-only version of FAT32 you may occasionally enounter an application that fails to function properly because it is not able to execute from or maintain files on a read-only drive.
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