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Re: WIN95 & FAT32
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Karl Gottshalk <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:47:05 -0500
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Not to belabor the point, but if I use Partition Magic (which I use all the
time), then I can install Windows95a on the drive? or Windows95a will
recognize the drive if I change the FAT type to FAT32?

Karl Gottshalk

>Windows 95 and 95A did not include an FDISK program that had FAT32
>capabilities.  So they can not create a FAT32 drive, but these earlier
>versions of Windows will install and run just fine on a 32 bit drive
>created by some other software, such as Partition Magic (or even a drive
>formatted by Win95B's fdisk).
>
>In fact, the documentation for Partition Magic claims that it will even
>work with Windows 3.x,  NT 3.51 *AND* NT 4.0.

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