win2k has some major flaws for the corporate environment... any user account can grab system privileges in about 2 minutes, and from there escalate to local admin. go with XP, you can get a cheep copy of pro for $140 or less.
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Originally Posted by xepherys
From a system installed on a FAT32 partition, you can not, by default, work with an NTFS partition. The primary reason for this is security. The security features available on NTFS are not on FAT32, and the FAT32-installed operating system does not have an y default measures to work with it.
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You can mount an ntfs volume on a system installed on fat32. no jury rigging, this took me 10 minutes to install windows, on the fat32 drive, then i mounted an ntfs partition and a fat 12 partition too.
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Originally Posted by xepherys
That being said, there are third party utilities that can allow you to access it. They work, but also have a higher risk of failure, and thus data corruption, so unless your data is rather unimportant, I'd forego it.
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the utility i recommended is virtually flawless, it's not some hack job, the people over at sysinternals do quality work, so good i used there utilities over Microsoft's on a daily basis, so good, Microsoft bought them out. hell it uses the same driver the nt kernel uses.
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Originally Posted by sysinternals
NTFS for Windows 98 wraps the Windows NT/2000/XP NTFS driver in a run-time environment that simulates the Windows NT environment the NTFS driver is written to use. Thus, NTFS for Windows 98 does not rely on potentially unreliable reverse-engineered information about NTFS, provides ultimate compatibility with NTFS, and takes advantage of Microsoft NTFS bug fixes whenever you update the NTFS driver file NTFS for Windows 98 uses to a more recent version.
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back to the original problem at hand, just partition the drive in to many fat32 partitions, it will be messy but it will work just fine.