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Native support under Windows: actually, I'll just remove this because otherwise it'll hang on here for another decade; this misinformation has been here for eighteen years already
 
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== Native support under Windows ==
[[Windows 95]] and its successors [[Windows 98]] and [[Windows Me]] canhave readno andsupport writefor HPFS only when mapped via a network share; they cannot read it from a local disk.{{what|reason=what is the point of this? It's like saying Win95 can read and write (any unsupported) file system through a network share -- of course it can. It has no knowledge of, nor is touching the underlying file system at all -- it only accesses it through the SMB/CIFS protocol after all. Utterly baffling sentence.}} {{citation needed span|date=May 2023|They listed the [[NTFS]] partitions of networked computers as "HPFS"}}, because NTFS and HPFS share the same [[Partition type|filesystem identification number]] in the partition table.
 
[[Windows NT 3.1]] and [[Windows NT 3.5|3.5]] have native read/write support for local disks and can even be installed onto an HPFS partition.