Subj : Re: NT installation probl To : Neil.Santos From : Robert Comer Date : Wed Mar 07 2001 02:54 am From: "Robert Comer" > so if i made a disk in ntfs5, and used it under nt4, it would see my disk. but > what d'you mean ntfs5 specific parts? like... >permissions, sharing and > ownership? things like that? No, NT4 would be able to use those because they are NTFS4 compatible. > i'm not sure if i could be understood by anyone... > i don't think i understand myself either... ;b I can understand you confusion, it's weird the way MS did this. Let me see if I can boil it down a bit: First you have NT4 and NTFS4 that we have to grow and like with its permissions, journalling, streams and all, then one installs W2K in a dual boot config. Once W2K actually touches an NTFS4 partition, it can add things to file structures and other files (like Geo's "objects" really just new file ID's) that NT4 cannot understand directly, but with the aid of SP5 and/or 6a, tolerates. It cannot change these NTFS5 specific stuff, but it knows enough about them to leave them as is, and the rest of the partition is the same between NTFS4 and NTFS5. - Bob Comer wrote in message news:b07d4d.677de0@harborwebs.com... --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .