[arachne] Re: FAT32 vs. NTFS was Re: How to fix this puter?

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On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:09 -0700, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
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> Hi Rob,
>               If you like NTFS then that's fine.
> I'm glad for you. Enjoy.
>       I don't like my experience with NTFS
> and I like to have access to my partitions
> from DOS and W98 and XP.  I can't do that
> with NTFS. I prefer the W98 DOS to the
> XP command line/DOS emulator...but
> I'll work with both if I have to.
>      So, different strokes for different folks !  :-}
> 
> Eric

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Question:

If you install WinXP on a FAT32 partition instead of on a 
ntfs partition, is it possible to access the "C:" drive after
you boot to a floppy?

In my experience, upon booting to a floppy, I have not been 
able to to access the hard drive of a WinXP computer where 
WinXP has been installed on a ntfs partition.  I don't know
how to do it, but this is not to say that it can't be done.
I don't think it is possible to do that, but I'm not absolutely
sure that it can't be done.

Does anybody here know how to do that?

Sam Heywood



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