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MervB  
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From: MervB <Me...@discussions.microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:04 -0700
Local: Wed, Jul 23 2008 3:40 pm
Subject: Installing Dos 6.22 on an NTFS hard drive
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I am trying to install Dos6.22 onto a VPC running under XP SP3 with an NTFS
formatted hard drive. Dos 6.22 wants to reformat the drive to a FAT32. How
will this affect my XP?
What will happen to the reformated section of the hard drive when the VPC is
removed?

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Steve Jain  
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From: Steve Jain <norepl...@-.essjae.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:02:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: Installing Dos 6.22 on an NTFS hard drive
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:04 -0700, MervB

<Me...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I am trying to install Dos6.22 onto a VPC running under XP SP3 with an NTFS
>formatted hard drive. Dos 6.22 wants to reformat the drive to a FAT32. How
>will this affect my XP?
>What will happen to the reformated section of the hard drive when the VPC is
>removed?

You're not reformatting the physical drive, you're formatting the
Virtual Hard Drive, the .VHD file.  
This only affects XP in that this file takes up hard drive space, like
a Word document or picture files.
When you delete the .vhd file, the space used by it on your hard drive
is recovered, just as when you delete any file.

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I do not work for Microsoft.


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Mark Rae [MVP]  
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From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m...@markNOSPAMrae.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:20:02 +0100
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Subject: Re: Installing Dos 6.22 on an NTFS hard drive
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"MervB" <Me...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> How will this affect my XP?

It won't affect it at all, other than to take up some disk space, just like
any other file would...

> What will happen to the reformated section of the hard drive when the VPC
> is
> removed?

Nothing, other than the space previously occupied by the virtual hard disk
will be flagged as available, just as happens deleting any other file...

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David B.  
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From: "David B." <m...@nomail.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:26:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: Installing Dos 6.22 on an NTFS hard drive
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Uhhh, Dos 6.22 does not support FAT32, FAT16 only, max partition size of
2GB.

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