Windows 95 Views But Cannot Access NTFS and HPFS Partitions This article was written about products for which Microsoft no longer offers support. Therefore, this article is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.
This article was previously published under Q118791 SYMPTOMS
When you double-click My Computer after installing Windows 95 on a system
with Windows NT or OS/2 already installed, Windows 95 recognizes any
existing NTFS and HPFS partitions as hard disk drives. However, Windows 95
does not have access to the NTFS or HPFS partitions and therefore reports
one or more of the following errors when you try to use an NTFS or HPFS
disk partition:
The disk in drive <x> is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
-or-
Drive <x> cannot be selected right now. Try again later.
-or-
Unable to create 'fldr000'.
Windows 95 incorrectly reports the size of and space available on the NTFS
or HPFS drive. Both values are overestimated. For example, a 80-megabyte
(MB) partition may be reported as 3.5 gigabytes in size with 1.8 gigabytes
of available space.
Make sure the disk is not full or read-only. Windows 95 allows you to share an NTFS or HPFS drive. Connecting to a shared NTFS or HPFS drive results in either an empty listing or the following error message
An error occurred while connecting to drive <x>.
where <x> is the selected drive letter for the network connection.
CAUSE
Windows 95 does not support read and write access to NTFS or HPFS
partitions; however, Windows 95 Setup does identify these partitions as
hard disk drives.
RESOLUTION
Currently, there is no method to prevent Windows 95 from displaying NTFS or
HPFS partitions as disk drives.
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