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NT4.0 FAT32 Support 9x/DOS NTFS Support

brynetbrynet
edited March 2005 in Software
Hello .. I Recently Installed NT4 On A Computer And It Had A Fat32 Formated HDD. So I Searched Online Looking For A Driver To Read/Write To This Drive Not Only Did I Find A Driver For That. But I Found One For 9x/DOS NTFS Read/Write Support!!! ..


Download FAT32 Support For NT4
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/fat32.exe

Download NTFS Support For 98,95 (Read-Only)
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/ntfs98ro.exe

Download NTFS Support For DOS (Read-Only)
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/NTFSProR.exe

Download NTFS Support For DOS (Read/Write)
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/ntfs30r.zip


Documents And Information
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freew ... spro.shtml -NTFS-DOS
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freew ... in98.shtml -NTFS-9x
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/fat32.shtml -FAT32-NT4
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freew ... sdos.shtml -NTFS-DOS

Enjoy... (This Doesnt Mean You Can Install NT4 On Fat32 Just Read)
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Comments

  • nighticenightice
    Actually, SomeGuy from OSBA managed to boot NT4 on a FAT32 partition with 2000's NTLDR and a FAT32 read/write driver.
  • brynetbrynet
    edited February 2011
    hello .. im just posting a picture of fat32 support in windows NT4 ...enjoy.

    Screen Shot 1
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  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    Ok... 4GB partition. NT can use it's own FAT16 to create 4GB partitions. Why it can go past 2GB with FAT16 I don't know.
  • JoshJosh
    wingzeroismine wrote:
    Ok... 4GB partition. NT can use it's own FAT16 to create 4GB partitions. Why it can go past 2GB with FAT16 I don't know.
    NT uses FAT32.
  • nighticenightice
    Wrong. To achieve 4GB partitions with FAT, it uses a special cluster size that I don't recall offhand.
  • JoshJosh
    nightice wrote:
    Wrong. To achieve 4GB partitions with FAT, it uses a special cluster size that I don't recall offhand.
    Dude, when you pick the option in NT setup to format it as FAT it formats it as FAT32. Why would it format as FAT16? WHY?
  • nighticenightice
    I assume you mean Windows NT 4? It doesn't do FAT32. If you're applying the term NT to NT-based OSes (like 2000 and XP) then yeah, it formats as FAT32. (but for some reason, if you create an unformatted partition with pqmagic, it will format as FAT)
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    NT 4.0 and below have no native support for FAT32. They use a different cluster size allowing you to partiton 4GB, but obviously it isn't a prime for preformance.
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;140365

    Drive Size FAT Type Sectors Cluster
    (logical volume) Per Cluster Size
    0 MB - 15 MB 12-bit 8 4K
    16 MB - 127 MB 16-bit 4 2K
    128 MB - 255 MB 16-bit 8 4K
    256 MB - 511 MB 16-bit 16 8K
    512 MB - 1023 MB 16-bit 32 16K
    1024 MB - 2048 MB 16-bit 64 32K
    2048 MB - 4096 MB 16-bit 128 64K
    *4096 MB - 8192 MB 16-bit 256 128K NT V4.0 only
    *8192 MB - 16384 MB 16-bit 512 256K NT V4.0 only

    wow, that looks a lot nicer once posted here...

    To support > 4GB FAT partitions using 128k or 256k clusters, the drives must use > 512 byte sectors.
  • brynetbrynet
    edited February 2011
    hello .. i have one more pic here that i took .. because alot of you said somthing like 4gb is sucky .. i put in my 20gb hdd ... here is the pic

    Picture 2
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  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    No no, what we meant is.... NT can format a 4GB hard drive with FAT16 by itself, without the need of a third party driver. Ok, formatting a 20GB hard drive with FAT32 is another story, but even so, using NTFS instead of FAT32 would be nicer for NT. However... I suppose if you have a 98 bootdisk or something, it will be able to access the drive. Though it might just be wiser to get the NTFS read/write support added to a bootdisk, then to install an OS on a hard drive with a file system it doesn't natively support.
  • nighticenightice
    Problem is, NTFSDOS needs like 3 disks, so a boot CD would be a nice solution.
  • wingzeroisminewingzeroismine
    Ah... well in that case... a boot cd would be a nice solution, and.. it would leave you with lots of room for ghost programs or additional drivers you may need.
  • expert01expert01
    I have NTFS DOS Pro with all the necessary files if anyone wants it, but it is on my computer which will not be available to me for a few days.
  • nighticenightice
    I have it and will put it on my server soon.
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