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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Special K)
Fri Nov 6 15:30:28 1998

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:29:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Special K <collins@MIT.EDU>
To: licks@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199811061531.KAA27909@perseverance.mit.edu>

| during the NT4 install process, you can tell NT to convert the
| partition to FAT.

This works, also.

| The question is: will the NT4 install hang because there is an NT5
| partition present?  That is, the NTFS driver in the NT4 install
| detects an NTFS partition and then barfs when it tries to read some
| metadata and finds an unknown version number.  That would be

As far as my experience goes with NT4 recognizing NT5 disks, it sees it as
an NT partition, plain and simple.  It may not be able to read from the
partition, but it won't barf.

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