[WinMac] Re: Invisibles in Mac Volume - Bad setup

Jeff Wechter(jeff[at]azimuthco.com)
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:24:21 -0600

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> Oops!
>
> I'll wager it's on your C: drive.

You'd lose that bet :-)

> You originally installed MS/DOS on that partition, then installed NT, then
>converted it to NTFS, and then shared the entire drive as a MacFile share.

Possibly. I didn't do any of the installations, but the files in question are on a RAID I'll call E: and are dated January of 1997. The boot drive C: has an IO.SYS file dated March 1997. Perhaps the system was installed on E by mistake, then a fresh system installed on C and then the system on E was deleted but some files lingered? FWIW, a second RAID called F doesn't have these system files.

It seems that I can delete them without problems (on E, not C). But I'm still curious what they do for the NT OS (on C), and also how they got there (on E) if my guesswork above is improbable.

>>In one of two Mac Volumes on an NT with SFM running there are two extra
>invisible files in addition to the usual; I suspect they are junk, but I
>wonder what they are before I delete them:
>>
>>IO.SYS
>>MSDOS.SYS

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