-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:24:25 +0000 Geoff Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FWIW, I recently ran into all sorts of problems with that approach. In > my case, I attempted to dual-boot NT4 and Windows 2000, installing > Windows 2000 to drive D: with an existing NT4 installation on C: > > After installing Windows 2000, NT4 would no longer boot (even in VGA > mode) and I lost all the applications and settings previously on that > computer. Worse, my backup software doesn't work with Windows 2000 -- > so I effectively also lost all my backups too. > > Thankfully, my data files are on another partition, so I at least > didn't lose them. > If I remember correctly, this is because Windows 2000 silently upgrades any NTFS4 partitions to NTFS5. NT4 can not read them anymore once this has occurred and thus will not boot. The beautiful part of this is the fact that Microsoft didn't seem to think it was necessary to warn you before this happens. Of course I'm assuming that you were using NTFS and not FAT16 on NT4, but I think that is a fairly safe assumption. - -- Best regards, Jonathan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE98EspryIAwRrDgYwRAlQtAKC8hRDWcNkr0rPbS2Gh/Tyk3uUo0ACgtOuR v1pInJ+QdnMvuOBy7UYIX/s= =rt21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
