Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MMC> 07 Dec 2003, 04:05, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to all: 

 MMC> Hi Roy.

 RJT> I seem to recall some discussion in here a while back regarding 
 RJT> some version or other of windoze that makes it *real* much of a 
 RJT> PITA to try and do anything else with the HD afterwards,  like 
 RJT> maybe install something else...

 RJT> I can't recall the particulars,  though.  Can you guys refresh 
 RJT> my memory on this issue?

 MMC> Can't think of anything along those lines right now.  Windows NT,
 MMC> Win2000, and WinXP all use variations of the "NT File system", and
 MMC> plain old DOS doesn't see it at all.  Might have been some
 MMC> comments along those lines some time back.        

 MMC> ????????????

Well,  as I mentioned in a nearby message,  we have a family member who's
been trying to get his machine back up after some hardware hassles (failed
power supply and HD),  and he was using XP.  After a whole re-install it
came up asking for some file,  I had no idea...  And when he decided to
have a go at trying to install my copy of 98,  it came up beeping and
saying "illegal copy"!  (It isn't.)  I was thinking that perhaps
it was XP that was being referred to there...

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