NTFS vs FAT for DOS App.

[Jim W]

I have an old DOS CAD program that I use everday. I want
to upgrade to WIN2K. Can I partition for both FAT32 and
NFTS, install the DOS program in FAT and everything else
in NTFS? Does this make sense? What is the down side?

Thanks

 

[DL]

You can certainly partition and set partitions as required
I'm not aware of any probs - I ran this way before changing all to NFTS
David

 

[Dave Patrick]

For msdos you'll need a fat16 system partition.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=217210

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| I have an old DOS CAD program that I use everday. I want
| to upgrade to WIN2K. Can I partition for both FAT32 and
| NFTS, install the DOS program in FAT and everything else
| in NTFS? Does this make sense? What is the down side?
|
| Thanks

 

[Guest]

I run a dos program everyday on my win2k machine.
It is formatted NTFS. It works fine...

Dan