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How do i create a hpfs or ntfs on my hard drive?

Feb 8, 2004 11:18PM PST

on a new hard drive

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Re:How do i create a hpfs or ntfs on my hard drive?
Feb 10, 2004 9:55AM PST

you need to partition and format your drive. HPFS exists only for OS/2 systems. i seriously doubt you are running that. NTFS can only be created with an NT-based operating system.

Herb...

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Re:How do i create a hpfs or ntfs on my hard drive?
Mar 4, 2004 5:20AM PST

You will need to install Win2000 and follow the prompts. Take note that once you have an NTSF OS you can only communicate with FAT32 format and not FAT or any other OS. Read, Read, Read. Also when you need to re-install an NTSF it cleans everything off, you start from scratch. I hope I haven't scared you off here I'm running W2K for years now and I've found it to be the most stable Win OS as well as the most versitile great OS as far as I'm concerned. Hope this helps.