Does anyone know if Windows Longhorn will be able to read FAT16 partitions like Windows XP, or is it too early to tell?
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Jump to PostI don't think Longhorn is going to be released until 2005-2006 (or was it 2007?) so I think it's too early to tell. If it were easy to make FAT32 support backwards compatible with FAT16, I can't see any reason why Microsoft wouldn't do it. But I don't think they're …
Jump to PostI'm not sure, but I don't think it will according to what I've heard. Nobody who uses FAT16 should've been allowed to survive the '90s anyway :p
Jump to PostSorry, I just couldn't resist the comment :)
Those older DOS games should work just fine if you dual-boot with Windows 98, by the way. And you can even get most of them to run under Windows XP with a little persuasion.
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