Re: Why can't I install WinNT 4.0 on a FAT32 disk system ????

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From: Richard Santink
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:00

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Erik T Lundberg wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I'm trying to install Windows NT 4.0 server software on a
> Windows95 based PC.  The DOS portion of the install workes great,
> but after that it complains that it can not find the files(drive)
> where the files where copied to.  What I'm I doing wrong ?
> 
> Regards Erik
You can't use FAT32 with NT... You will have to use a normal FAT
partition if you want to dualboot, or make three partitions  - One Fat32
for win95, one NTFS for NT, and one common FAT16 drive for them to
share.  Anyway, bottom line is you can't use FAT32 with NT.

RS

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From: Richard Santink <richard.santink@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Why can't I install WinNT 4.0 on a FAT32 disk system ????
Date: 1997/05/23
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