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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing Windows NT 4.0 on a disk with FreeBSD Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:11:29 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <329EA8C1.20A5@www.play-hookey.com> References: <57lg1e$o8n@shell.fore.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Rajesh Vaidheeswarran wrote: > > Hi: > > I have a question regarding WinNT and FreeBSD. > > I have a disk with FreeBSD 2.1.5 and Win 95. Things are Ok now. I am planning > to replace Win 95 with NT 4.0. > > Am I at risk of losing my FreeBSD partition now? I know that Win 95 is > quite brain dead, and WILL destroy.. but is Win NT the same way? > > Has anyone done a successful install of Win NT on a disk that > already had FreeBSD? > One caveat to watch out for: Every effort we have made (where I work) to install NT Server 4.0 with NTFS as opposed to a FAT implementation has resulted in NT taking over the entire hard drive, regardless of how it was previously partitioned. This loses all prior information on the drive. To avoid losing existing data, I think you'll have to stick with the FAT system. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |