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Re: [1998.11.02]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danilo Almeida)
Wed Nov 4 13:25:09 1998

To: Aidan Low <aidan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: licks@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 11:35:12 EST."
             <3.0.3.32.19981104113512.009df100@po9.mit.edu> 
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 13:24:49 EST
From: Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@MIT.EDU>


> I did install NT 4 and NT 5 on different partitions, and I installed
> NT4 first and then NT5 (both using their respective versions of
> NTFS.  The problem was (apparently) that NT5 upgrades ALL NTFS
> partitions to NTFS5 on install (regardless of which partition you
> actually install NT 5 to), so the NT4 partition was reconfigured to
> use NTFS5, and thus cannot read its own data.  I reinstalled, this
> time installing FAT for the NT4 partition, but I haven't had a
> chance to check if it works yet.

You did not need to do that...just copy the NTFS4.SYS on the NT5
install (or CD) over the NTFS.SYS for NT4 w/SP3 should have been
enough.

- Danilo

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