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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2003 07:59:41 PST8
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HPFS Driver for XP !?

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Originally, NT3.5 could read and write HPFS partitions. MS was a
co-developer of HPFS, and NTFS draws it heritage from that HPFS
development.

PINBALL.SYS was the NT 3.5 driver and was installable on NT4
as a fairly straightforward addition allowing HPFS access.
Some time ago, there was a discussion here about how to do this.
I sorta seem to remember that some kind of hack/patch was required
to make Pinball.sys work with Win2K.
This driver was/is still available somewhere on the net. Peter
is really good at finding this kind of thing, and I think
I may even have saved a copy.

But, I do NOT know for sure if this driver will, or even can, work on
Win2K and its successors, i.e. Win XP. Several structural changes have
been made to XP, and XP will not even run _all_ the previous
windows software that formerly ran under windows. Much still runs,
but some specific categories do not (e.g. AV software, Partition Magic).

Perhaps someone reading this can state definitively whether
Win2K or XP can be "tricked" into sharing HPFS partitions.

-- Steve

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