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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Windows NT 4.0 on a disk with FreeBSD
Date: 3 Dec 1996 00:23:33 -0000
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In article <329EA8C1.20A5@www.play-hookey.com>,
Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes:
: 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.
Wow ! Hate that ! I havn't used an NTFS, so I never saw this :(
: To avoid losing existing data, I think you'll have to stick with the FAT
: system.
And it will leave your boot sector alone - in a sense. It overwrites it
during install (so that it can reboot a few times), but puts it back when
it's finished. This even leaves osbs20b8 (which uses more than just the
first sector) intact.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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