Anyone have CHKDSK hotfix KB872952 for Windows NT4?

[Per Hansson]

Hi, does anyone have a copy of KB872952 saved?
I need it for Windows NT4, Microsoft has been so helpful as to remove all old KB articles and ask you to upgrade to Win10 instead
The file is also known as: 199776_ENU_i386_zip.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872952
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117....com/kb/872952
https://msfn.org/board/topic/169500-...windows-nt-40/

[Topcat]

Re: Anyone have KB872952 for NT4?

What specifically does this fix? I have a bunch of NT4 stuff, I'd have to dig through the dustballs of PC history to check.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Anyone have KB872952 for NT4?

The way it's been described is when you do a dual boot install: NT4 and Win2K.
Then Win2K upgrades the NTFS filesystem to it's version, that the NT4 version of CHKDSK does not understand.
I think it's more stupid than that: if you simply connect a NT4 harddrive to a Win2K or later system the NTFS version is upgraded.
Thus when you reconnect the HDD and try to run CHKDSK on the NT4 machine you get this error message:
"This NTFS volume was created or modified by a later version of Windows NT."

I will test this during the weekend to make sure it really is this stupid (for my own records).
But as it is I have a machine unable to run CHKDSK for this reason...

[Per Hansson]

Re: Anyone have KB872952 for NT4?

Well what do you know, now that I'm at home I found a local copy of the file on my machines.
I really need to make it a priority to setup a 24/7 NAS that I can reach via my VPN haha
The attached WinRAR archive contains: 199776_ENU_i386_zip.exe
This is a self-extracing archive that contains:
WindowsNT4Workstation-KB872952-V2-x86-ENU.exe
WindowsNT4Workstation-KB872952-V2-x86-symbols-ENU.exe