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echo: nthelp
to: Robert Comer
from: Ellen K
date: 2003-06-19 18:51:54
subject: Re: FAT32 and NTFS on same box?

Could the fact that we also have Novell (and initially log on to Novell,
then to Windows) have anything to do with this?

> From: "Robert Comer" 
> "That's how we did it."
> That's a pretty standard response. 
> There's really not any need to do that anymore unless you dual boot, the
> Recovery Console gets you by anything that you had to have FAT32 for before.
> - Bob Comer
> "Ellen K."  wrote in message
> news:3ol2fvgdf4fiqqqot8hd7e7bin71kl89pr{at}4ax.com...
>> I asked the one helpdesk guy who was still there when I discovered this
>> why it was FAT32, he said "We put FAT32 on all the Windows
2000 boxes in
>> the beginning."  Me:  "WHY?"  Him:  "That's
how we did it."   
>> 
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:32:05 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote in message
:
>> 
>> >No problem. (though I'd convert both change your main one to NTFS if you
>> >don't need it fat32 for some reason.)
>> >
>> >- Bob Comer
>> >
>> >
>> >"Ellen K"  wrote in message
>> >news:40948b.d2b56b{at}harborwebs.com...
>> >> I asked for an additional hard drive and they're
installing it tomorrow
> in
>> >the
>> >> morning before I come in... was just going to send an
email reminding
> them
>> >it
>> >> should be NTFS and decided to check what I have on C and
it's FAT32.
> (!)
>> >Can I
>> >> have NTFS on the other one without creating problems?
>> >
>> 

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