Subj : HPFS-support in Win98?
To   : Linda Proulx
From : Charles Scaglione
Date : Wed Jul 26 2000 05:11 am

Linda Proulx wrote to Christer Jacobsson

LP> CJ> In NT4, I can easily get HPFS support simply by copying the NT
LP> CJ> 3.51 PINBALL.SYS driver into winnt\system32\drivers and maybe
LP> CJ> updating the Registry with a program (HPFS_NT4) that is floating
LP> CJ> around on the Net.

LP>I hear that's a VERY bad thing to do.  It would be best to put common
LP>stuff on a FAT 16 partiton.

Actually it works real well.  However, there's no point installing HPFS 
support to NT 4.0 unless you're dual booting with OS/2 and/or have a 
partition load of data formatted to HPFS.

Unfortunately, even robust third party utilities such as Partition Magic 
can not change an HPFS formatted partition to FAT.  When OS/2 lost its 
popularity as a desktop OS, no one seemed to care enough to provide 
conversion support for HPFS.  Microsoft could have done it easily enough 
since they along with IBM invented HPFS.

Regards.

cscag@flash.net

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