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Can I convert the boot partition to FAT32?

Started by BookWorm, 2009.08.25, 16:44:50

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ivan

OK now I know what you mean Radek.

Yes windows from 2k up sees HPFS partitions as NTFS - something I'm sure MS 'arranged' - and if you let win try and do anything with an HPFS partition then it will trash it.  Just like the  'accidental' trashing of boot manager by 2k unless you protect it.

I have windows in a VM on OS/2 because I have to support some of my clients and only let it communicate via FTP.

As far as I know the PINBALL.SYS / RS.DLL usage only works with 2k - never tried it with higher win versions as there is no need.  The w2k machine it is on will stay as w2k until the machine that relies on it dies, then it will be scrapped and I will have one less thing to worry about.

Saijin_Naib

Works fine with WinXP SP3. Just so you know, it doesn't see it as NTFS, it sees it as HPFS. It is just function-limited. You can't defrag/error check the volume but that is about all.

The reason why this "is arranged" is that NTFS and HPFS have the same Partition ID of 0x07. Makes sense seeing as NTFS is the furtherance of HPFS after Microsoft and IBM split.