Re: FBA and File System

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From: Alexander Suhovey (asuhovey_at_mtu-net.ru)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:21:47 +0400

> You don't need to use bootprep if you format your target drive with NTFS.

Yeah. Just make sure your NTFS partition is primary partition marked as
active.

Al.

"KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:O2x9WmhXEHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Sid,
>
> There is no particular FBA requirement to FS. Everything you could make
bootable (for ntldr) and workable through NT/2K/XP kernel
> (FS driver) would work for FBA/XPe.
>
> FAT and NTFS are good to go since there are standard drivers for them in
XPe repository.
>
> You don't need to use bootprep if you format your target drive with NTFS.
>
> --
> Regards,
> KM, BSquare Corp.
>
>
> > Hi All
> > I have been working for a while with XPembedded. Here what I need to
know. What is the file system requirement for FBA to start.
> We have been doing FAT, running bootprep and once FBA completes then
running Convert C: /FS:NTFS.
> >
> > I have read about using FBA directly on a drive with NTFS w/o any
problems. Is it true? I know we dont have to run bootprep on the
> drive, but will it work? Let me know
> > thanks
> > Sid
>
>

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