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To: Michelino who wrote (524)4/28/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Spots  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Don't leave home from FAT partitions under NT
without a small bootable fat partition and
NTFS DOS. These are the tools that disaster
recoveries are made from. I AM NOT KIDDING.

I keep DOS, Win 3.1, and Win 95 bootable from a
fat partition on my NT systems. If you're smart
(which I will admit I have not always been), the
fat partition will be on the same physical disk as
the NTFS partition. You may or may not want to
run NT from an NTFS partition, depending on your
needs. I need network security plus compression
(both of which require NTFS in practical terms,
though you can do limited security with fat).

NDFS DOS is a lifesaver. You can no-kidding
access NTFS partitions (read only) from DOS,
win 3.1 and Win 95. I has saved my bacon many
times. (As usual I'm remiss in keeping up to
date on it, but a couple of months ago the
version I loaded last fall saved many many hours
of anguish after NT crashed. The crash was my
fault, BTW, but placing the blame doesn't help
you recover! NTFSDOS DOES help you recover <G>).

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