About Partition Manager

[Chiropter]

I have a HDD in which Win2K Japanese is installed. When I try to
repartition with a partition manager that works with English Windows or
DOS, the partition manager indicates that format is invalid and refuses
to do anything further.
My questions are:

1.Is there any difference between formatting with, say, NTFS in English
Windows and formatting with NTFS in Japanese Windows? Japanese and
other asian languages use two byte system to accomodate much larger
number of characters,but as long as formatting a partion is concerned,
NTFS is NTFS and no other NTFS, isn't this correct?

2. Why does a partition manager care about the language? Is there a
partition manager specially designed for two bytes system such as Japanese?

 

[Guest]

NTFS is ntfs. I suspect the problem is not with the language code, which if
you are trying to repartition via dos boot has nothing to do with the issue,
but you are running a partitioning software that doesn't recognize the newer
ntfs version. Update your partitioning software.