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- From: Edward Palisoc <palisoc@mindspring.com>
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-( Who really gives a shit what you buy
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:08 -0500
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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- There is no need to reformat a drive in order to install NT, as
- a matter of fact, once NT is installed, you can leave it on a
- FAT partition (kinda like running a Lotus with a Pinto engine),
- or convert it to an NTFS partition. No headache involved.
-
-
- Ed
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- John E. Davis wrote:
- >
- > On 14 Jan 1996 11:22:03 GMT, joebev@netvoyage.net
- > 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.
-