Date:         Tue, 25 May 1999 22:34:43 EDT
Reply-To:     DPriemer@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Priemer <DPriemer@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Gerry is ill - NT, FAT, USB
Comments: To: Vernon@craddock.com
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In a message dated 05/25/1999 11:42:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Vernon@Craddock.Com writes:

<<      I don't claim to be an expert either, but...  FAT32 can only be read
by
 Win95 OSR2 and Win98.  NT3 and NT4 cannot touch a FAT32 partition (aside
 from reformatting it). >>

Yeah, you are right. We use Nortons Ghost to image the partition to another
hard drive first (usually after booting with a DOS6.2 disk) then use a
utility like PQ Magic to make it FAT32. NT3 will not work with FAT16 as far
as I know. NT4 needs a third party utility to read FAT32 (cant recall what it
is a the moment).

Also NT4 does not support USB (someone asked me this). A third party has
developed an add-on hub (4 and 7 port) that will work with NT but it is not
slated for market until September at $199 and $399 respectively (manufacture
suggested retail price).

David (really just a newbie to NT and VW)
83.5 Vanagon GL (and glad the ECU doesn't us NT and .... well you get the
picture)