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NTFS Formatting under Win98

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Frank GoBell

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Sep 13, 2001, 12:16:08 AM9/13/01
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"Kevin Black" <kevin...@megabit.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've an application that is quite disk intensive. It is running under
Win98
> (there is some direct hardware I/O to a board of our own with a custom DLL
> so NT/2000 is problematic). Regardless, Win98 frequently crashed with a
> full disk message because of a known FAT32 bug, ie. incorrectly reporting
> free disk space. For our type of application this is unacceptable. We
are
> looking at various solutions one of which is to use NTFS partitions.
>
> I've found winternals that allos read/write (read on the demo which works
> fine) access to NTFS under Win98. I'm happy to buy the full blown
version,
> but how do I format NTFS partitions - and no, I don't want to dual boot.
>
> Question: Is there an application out there in cyberland that will run
> under Win98 and format partitions as NTFS??????
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>

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Frank GoBell, MCSE+Internet


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