This has been through another group already..........
I am the writer in both cases...........

From FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>, in
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:50:34 -0400 :

>
>I have a question. Actually several questions.
>
>To set up the scenario:
>
>I have a physical XP Pro machine, it has two separate hard disks, C and D.
>On physical drive D, I have two virtual machines. One is XP (not relevant
>here) and one is Win98 SE.
> The two virtual machines share a folder (VMA is installed on both)
> It is known to both as "drive Z".
>
>
>As I described this elsewhere..........
>
>On the win 98 virtual machine. I noticed that MSINFO32, run from the

virtual machine said "drive Z" was formatted FAT32 (It's really NTFS)

It has changed it mind. I have the image captured last night of it saying
"FAT32" for Drive Z, just now it says what is shown below.

>and it
>was the remaining size of my real D disk. What it really is, is a single
>subdirectory on my real XP D drive, defined as a "shared folder" through
>which I can have one machine communicate with the other. (You have to
>install "Virtual Machine Additions" for that) The virtual C drive is not as
>big as shown either. It is dynamic and expands as necessary *until* it gets
>to that size. So far as i know, virtual drive C really is formatted as
>FAT32. At least I got the "formatting drive C" and increasing percentage
>on install. BUT, since it is dynamic and expanding, how could it be
>reformatted space? I could understand static space being reformatted --
>it's just a file to XP.
>
>Install also claimed to have set up a partition on the C virtual
>disk.....that would be static space, except it is dynamic. How can that be?
>

Copied from display window of MSINFO32 "System Information" in Win 98 VM.

Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Clean install using Full OEM CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=D:\WIN98 /IE
/NF /IZ /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 5.00.2614.3500
Uptime: 0:00:02:10
Normal mode
On "<name>WIN98VM" as "<my name>"

AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
64MB RAM
94% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive C (1733MB free)
Available space on drive C: 1733MB of 1994MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive Z: 205090MB of 238472MB (â÷¿g)



(I have no idea how those high ascii characters for drive Z formatting
display will travel over usenet.)

However, that still does not explain the dynamic .vhd being described as
FAT32 at 1994mb when its current size is 291mb.

FACE

Win98 has to see FAT32. It can't see NTFS.

"FACE" <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:s5ft44tmq4lb05md2uh178foibmfs0pcsd@xxxxxx

> This has been through another group already..........
> I am the writer in both cases...........
>
> From FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>, in
> microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:50:34 -0400 :
>
>

>>
>>I have a question. Actually several questions.
>>
>>To set up the scenario:
>>
>>I have a physical XP Pro machine, it has two separate hard disks, C and D.
>>On physical drive D, I have two virtual machines. One is XP (not relevant
>>here) and one is Win98 SE.
>> The two virtual machines share a folder (VMA is installed on both)
>> It is known to both as "drive Z".
>>
>>
>>As I described this elsewhere..........
>>
>>On the win 98 virtual machine. I noticed that MSINFO32, run from the

> virtual machine said "drive Z" was formatted FAT32 (It's really NTFS)
>
> It has changed it mind. I have the image captured last night of it saying
> "FAT32" for Drive Z, just now it says what is shown below.
>

>>and it
>>was the remaining size of my real D disk. What it really is, is a
>>single
>>subdirectory on my real XP D drive, defined as a "shared folder" through
>>which I can have one machine communicate with the other. (You have to
>>install "Virtual Machine Additions" for that) The virtual C drive is not
>>as
>>big as shown either. It is dynamic and expands as necessary *until* it
>>gets
>>to that size. So far as i know, virtual drive C really is formatted as
>>FAT32. At least I got the "formatting drive C" and increasing percentage
>>on install. BUT, since it is dynamic and expanding, how could it be
>>reformatted space? I could understand static space being reformatted --
>>it's just a file to XP.
>>
>>Install also claimed to have set up a partition on the C virtual
>>disk.....that would be static space, except it is dynamic. How can that
>>be?
>>

>
> Copied from display window of MSINFO32 "System Information" in Win 98 VM.
>
> Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
> Clean install using Full OEM CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=D:\WIN98 /IE
> /NF /IZ /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> IE 5 5.00.2614.3500
> Uptime: 0:00:02:10
> Normal mode
> On "<name>WIN98VM" as "<my name>"
>
> AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
> 64MB RAM
> 94% system resources free
> Windows-managed swap file on drive C (1733MB free)
> Available space on drive C: 1733MB of 1994MB (FAT32)
> Available space on drive Z: 205090MB of 238472MB (â÷¿g)
>
> (I have no idea how those high ascii characters for drive Z formatting
> display will travel over usenet.)
>
> However, that still does not explain the dynamic .vhd being described as
> FAT32 at 1994mb when its current size is 291mb.
>
> FACE