Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 02:15:49 -0700 From: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> To: Mark Allen Cockrum <n9842643@cc.wwu.edu>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'charon@freethought.org'" <charon@freethought.org> Subject: RE: freebsd/WinNT question.. Message-ID: <01BEF67B.68451240@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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You can format the FAT drive to NTFS, as NTFS formatting will not remove = or destroy the files, do backup the files though incase the disk dies. Once the disk is formatted NTFS any subsequent formatting WILL destroy = data. Michael Akers M. Akers Enterprises =20 ---------- From: charon@freethought.org [SMTP:charon@freethought.org] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 1:36 AM To: Mark Allen Cockrum; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd/WinNT question.. I'm no expert, but I do run a Win95/NT/FreeBSD computer, so I can answer some of your questions. At 12:50 AM 9/4/99 -0700, Mark Allen Cockrum wrote: >Will FreeBSD 3.2 be able to read NTFS partitions? yes. >How hard is it to move over all my files in FAT to NTFS? Well, you could keep a FAT partition, copy all the files to an NTFS partition, then reformat the FAT partition to NTFS. I don't know if there's a more elegant way to do it... >How hard is it to maintain a FAT file system in WinNT? Not hard at all. You'll never notice what format a partition is, as = long as it's _FAT16_. If it's FAT32, that's a no-can-do with NT 4.0. >What programs (generally) from Win95 won't run under WinNT? I think anything that tries to access hardware directly (i.e. not going through the HAL). The only way this affected me is that I couldn't get Partition Magic to run under NT. Also, last I heard DirectX support for = NT was pretty shabby, so there are several Win95 games that won't run under = NT. Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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