Re: How to format FAT32 in Windows XP?


"Anthony W" <technojock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill in Co. wrote:

A DOS boot disk, e.g., a Win9x/Me "Startup Disk", will "see" NTFS
partitions
very well. At least for the most part. The *only* NTFS partitions it
will
not recognize are those logical drives created in an extended partition.
Anna

Not on my system it doesn't.
Not unless I have NTFSDOS (or whatever) loaded. We must have different
systems. :-)

Besides which, AFAIK, it is impossible for DOS-based enviroment to see
NTFS partitions *unless* some NTFS driver has been loaded for it on that
disk. And it's not on a standard Win9x/DOS startup disk.

Dos Fdisk will see NTFS partitions but it cannot read them and I think
that's what Anna was taking about.


To clarify: what I think you are saying is that the Win9x version of FDISK
will recognise and allow you to delete NTFS partitions. What it can't do is
create new NTFS partitions.


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