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- The Manager wrote:
- >
- > >I have been wondering if Windows 95 simply installed over an existing DOS
- > >partition without the user backing up the whole hard drive and then
- > >reinstalling applications. I cannot imagine this happening with NT without
- > >the need to reformat the hard disk for NT file systems. I do not think that
- > >most Windows users would be willing to do this. Since I do not use
- > >Microsoft products, I can only speculate on what would happen if
- > >Microsoft pushed its customers to NT.
- > >
- > Windows 95 installs a new FAT system called VFAT. It just extents the FAT table to use long file
- > names. Then it installs new system files. This dosn't require formating the HD like OS/2 or NT
- > does, although Microsoft does recommend you backup. (They also recommend backing up before
- > installing the old DOS versions too, but it's just a precaution.)
- >
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- Just a comment. Windows NT Does not require reformating the HD. I can be installed on and use
- FAT/VFAT and you can convert to NTFS using the Convert utility.
-
- I have DOS, Win3.1, Win95 and WinNT all installed on one machine. 1.5G NTFS partition and a
- 1G FAT/VFAT partition. I converted the 1.5G from FAT to NTFS and regained ~300K of disk space.
-
- The only problem is that some (stupid) applications install products into the Windows or
- Windows\System directory which have to exist in the WinNT or WinNT\System directory to run
- under WindowsNT (or you can just include Windows and Windows\System to the WinNT path).
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