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NTFS for Win98 

 

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Do not convert your first partition, or your Windows 95/98 boot partition (the 

one with \windows on it), to NTFS as there is no support in Windows 95 or 

Windows 98 for reading NTFS drives during the boot sequence.  

For maximum compatibility in dual boot systems, the recommended partition 

configuration is to maintain a FAT partition as the first partition on the primary 

drive. This partition should contain Windows 95/98 and should not be used to 

store applications or data files. The rest of the primary disks, and any other 

disks that you wish to share between Windows 98 and Windows NT/2000 can 

be formatted with NTFS or other file system types (FAT16 or FAT32) that are 

understood by the operating systems from which you wish to access them. 

Your Windows NT/2000 system directory can be placed on either a FAT or 

NTFS drive (note that Windows NT 4.0 cannot be placed on a FAT32 drive, 

nor boot from a FAT32 drive). 

Table 5-1 shows a file system compatibility chart that can help you determine 

which file systems to use for compatibility in your dual boot environment. 

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Operating system can boot from the file system 

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Operating system can access the file system, but not boot from it 

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    With Winternals Software’s FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0 

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   With Winternals Software’s NTFS for Win98