Re: How to format FAT32 in Windows XP?

M.I.5¾ wrote:
"Anthony W" <technojock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:gwJxj.13402$o23.8015@xxxxxxxxxxx
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.

FDISK is pretty damn limited (especially for the current era) - almost a
non-entity in my book. So what it can't do - would fill a book, and I
rarely, if ever, use it anymore. That's why I said what I said (i.e, on a
DOS bootable disk, you essentially have no real access (in the broader
sense) to NTFS partitions. And just being able to create or delete some
(and even those are restricted in size) is not what I would call real
access.


.

Relevant Pages
Loading