Re: [WinMac] Re: NTFS is great... When actually used!

Jeroen Camstra(jeroenc[at]bigfoot.com)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:45:45 +0100

At 22:16 13-1-99 -0800, Daryll wrote:
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>Oops indeed. FAT is such a piece of crap. But i think Alex's chief
>technologist didn't have a choice there, as these were dual-boot
>machines, no?
>
>(Well, ok, with the aforementioned extensions that Dan referred to,
>sure, but i sure wasn't aware of those things before he mentioned
>them.)
>
>But... aren't dual-boot 95/NT machines just a bad idea in general?
>i've had no end of problems with trying to "share" a disk between two
>OSes like that.
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It's not the dual-boot issue that is the cause of these problems. It's the
fact that you want to share your NT-boot partition with Win95. Share what
you have to share on a network volume whenever possible and don't share
programs (install them twice, once for each OS).

I've set up a dual-boot Win95/NT (well, actually it's a triple-boot
Win95/NTServer/NTWorkstation) with a fat16 Win95 C: partition and two NTFS
partitions for NT. In NT I changed the C: drive to X: with diskmanager so
(install-)programs don't try to put their files in C:\Program Files or
C:\Windows. Now only the NTLDR, NTDETECT, BOOTSECT.DOS & BOOT.INI files are
on a fat16 partition, and no problems dual-booting at all for the last year.

You could even (though I personally never tried it) have a small FAT16
C:-drive for booting, an NTFS-partition for NT and a FAT32-partition for
Win95. It that way the OSes keep their dirty work to themselves.

With regards,

Jeroen

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