[Color Computer] [Coco]Re: Transfer utilities
Alex Evans
alxevans at concentric.net
Sun Oct 9 16:39:46 EDT 2005
On Oct 8, 2005, at 7:09 PM, George Ramsower wrote:
> The problem I ran into with this idea was that the NTFS file system
> used by XP on the hard drive is not compatible with the older OSs.
> I can boot an older OS from a floppy, but the hard drive is
> inaccessible because of the NTFS. The files saved on the NTFS
> system are unavailable to the older OS such as 3.1, W95 and W98.
> There isn't enough room on a floppy to do all which is necessary to
> do the task.
Getting more complex you could have a small FAT partition which will
be accessible from both XP and the older OS.
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