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2000 is natively NTFS but could be installed as a FAT32 and possibly FAT16. But DOS/95 are FAT and 95OSR2/98/98SE/ME are FAT32


WTF are you talking about:

NTFS = New Technology Filing System

NTFS is simply a filing sytem(partion type) it has nothing to do with whether the OS is based on DOS or not.

If MS wanted to they could have released a new version of DOS that could read and write to NTFS partitions but it would still be DOS. **

The deciding factor is not the partition type, but how the OS interacts with the hardware, In Windows 3.11, windows just made DOS calls and it was DOS that made the hardware calls. In Windows NT based OS'es the windows NT kernel makes direct calls to the hardware without going through a DOS layer.


** - I think there may have been some third party software that can do this.
 
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