  
            Copyright  1998 Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
            Last Updated April 9, 1998, Version 1.01 Read-Only
            
             
            IntroductionFAT32 is a FAT32 file system driver for Windows NT 4.0. 
            Once installed, any FAT32 drives present on your system will be 
            fully accessible as native Windows NT volumes. This free version 
            provides read-only capabilities. A read/write version is for sale at 
            the Winternals Software web site. 
            
            Recommended FAT32 ConfigurationDo not convert your first partition, 
            or your NT boot partition (the one with \winnt on it), to FAT32 as 
            there is no support in Windows NT 4.0 for reading FAT32 drives 
            during the boot sequence. 
            
            For maximum compatibility in dual boot systems, the recommended 
            partition configuration is to maintain a FAT partition as the first 
            partition on the primary drive. This partition should contain 
            Windows 95/98 as well as Windows NT and should not be used to store 
            applications or data files. The rest of the primary disk and any 
            other disks should be formatted with FAT32.
            Setting Up Your PartitionsFAT32 for Windows NT does not make it 
            possible to format new FAT32 drives on your Windows NT system, just 
            view existing FAT32 drives. If you wish to benifit from the space 
            efficiency advantages FAT32 has over FAT16 drives and are setting up 
            a new computer, follow these steps.
            When you partition the drive create at least two partitions: one for 
            system files and one for data files. You may also choose to create 
            two partitions for system files: one for Windows 9x and one for 
            Windows NT. Of course, you may wish to create multiple data file 
            partitions.
            Install Windows 9x first, placing its system files (the \WINDOWS 
            directory) on the first partition (the C:\ drive), which must be 
            formatted as FAT16. Then format all the data drives as FAT32 drives. 
            Finally, install Windows NT on either the C:\ drive, or the second 
            system drive you created. The second system drive can be formatted 
            as NTFS or FAT16. After installing FAT32 for Windows NT the data 
            drives will be accessible (for read-only access) from Windows NT.
            CompatibilityFAT32 for Windows NT is fully compatible with all major 
            NT applications. However, with the read-only version of FAT32 you 
            may occasionally enounter an application that fails to function 
            properly because it is not able to execute from or maintain files on 
            a read-only drive.
            Related PagesIf your computer dual-boots between Windows NT and 
            Windows 9x, you might also be interested in NTFSDOS, our read-only 
            file NTFS file system driver for DOS, Win3x and Windows 9x. It will 
            give you access to files on NTFS volumes from outside of Windows NT

            

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