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| 131637 | 2003-03-29 06:48:00 | Im going to agree with Billy T on this one. Unless you NEED to make your folders private, it is best for the majority of users to stick to FAT32. Both the 2 PC companies Ive worked for in the past year have used FAT32 over NTFS, and the companies were small - moderately large sized. NTFS IMHO is more for servers.. with restrictions to the FS being native. Id suggest that rather than go to NTFS, use these tools: FProt (Search google for 'FProt KeyKey', to find the homepage) Folder Guard (Search google for it) these will satisfy most users requirements for securing/hiding folders or whatever :-) Plus FAT32 is compatible with Win98,ME, 2K, XP, NT, Linux, whereas NTFS is not.... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 131638 | 2003-04-25 08:17:00 | NTFS is good for security and stable / wont crash as often. The only thing is, you cant install 98 or any previous v of Windows on the same hdd, as they cant read NTFS. You can change it back to FAT32, BUT only with something like PartitionMagic, or a 3rd party program. Windows wont / cant change it back. Most people also seem to think you cant make a disk that runs on a NTFS hdd, BUT u can. ALL you need to do is copy 2 extra files to the floppy, after u make a system disk. | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 131639 | 2003-04-25 10:19:00 | are you trying to tell us that we can make a clasic dos boot disk and with a few extra file we can have access to a ntfs disk??? tell me more!! I was thought that the only way in was a NT or XP restore disk/CD |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 131640 | 2003-04-25 11:33:00 | Yup, all u haveta do, is copy the boot.ini from control panel/system/advanced/startup and recovery/click on edit, go into boot.ini/select all/copy and save it as a text file and save it as boot.ini. Save it to the floppy after u make a system disk, then copy the files, ntdetect.com, and setupldr (I think the ntdetect.com file) will make it, so the disk can see an ntfs hard drive. Well, since I use NTFS and a normal floppy from say 98 cant read NTFS, this will if I need to update my bios, will work in DOS on a floppy in XP (NTFS formatted). So I can do that. I spose, if you can find the files on the hdd (like edit etc), you can copy them to the floppy (if it'll fit), and thats it. The dir on this disk works tho...The dos disk wont get u into Windows tho, just plain old DOS like a 98 floppy would. If u booted from a floppy |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 131641 | 2003-04-25 11:40:00 | my experience, if u are foolish enof like me to install incompatible hardware's s/w (like version) into the ntfs system it can lock u out. and u cannot boot from a conventional boot disk to backup ur v impt data!! this also failed with a install on top while loggin on as admin in bootup - it rejected my correct password. this happened with older adaptec directcd. there was a fix workaround but i found that after i formatted and so lost the whole hdd. if u are careful and do regular backups ntfs i like. i am now... and i have ntfs back on.... R |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 131642 | 2003-04-25 11:41:00 | Well if someone has FAT32, you can convert it to NTFS by opening the command prompt, and typing convert /? It'll give u a template on how to do it. After that u reboot and voila, you have NTFS! It gets converted to NTFS. It shouldnt damage whats on the hdd. This is how I converted these to NTFS. | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 131643 | 2003-04-25 12:02:00 | robsonde- find the w2k plugin for UBD boot disk, you can then run dos (freedos in UBD's case). it has a ntfs driver on it. unfortunatly its no longer advailable due to the company that makes it changed it from freeware to paid :( | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 131644 | 2003-04-25 20:37:00 | If you are running W2K or XP I would recommend NTFS as I have found this to be ultra stable and reliable. Also when I upgraded a 500 Celeron to an Athlon XP 1800 I found the biggest gain in speed was going from FAT to NTFS.The security benifits are huge also. | Home PC (3468) | ||
| 131645 | 2003-04-25 21:01:00 | I've just rebuilt a W2K computer that used exclusively NTFS . . It was screwed, it wouldn't share with my network apart from FTP, which was of course my last attempt at getting important data out . Most of these problems stemmed from the loss of the admin pass, so i couldn't make it talk to . Nothing could read the HDD as it was NTFS, broken and effectively locked . My language was particualy fowl that day . Because it is not holding super sensitive material i rebuilt it with a fat32 partition so if i have to rebuild this machine in the future, (please NO) it will be dead easy to just pop the HDD in another machine as a guest drive and copy what we wish to keep from the "stuff" partition . Also i suspect that changing to NTFS might be rather difficult on a machine that is not being reformatted and rebuilt . . Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 131646 | 2003-04-25 22:05:00 | Well, in order to share XP on a network with NTFS (dunno if its the same with 2K). It might be. You MUST enable simple file sharing (well with XP PRO, anyway). This is in Windows Explorer / Tools / Folder Options / View in XP. Otherwise you HAVE TO add the networked PC's as guests. And it is time-consuming, if you dont enable simple file sharing (On XP PC's). These 3 PC's are also built from scratch. Also, on the odd occassion, if you use Zonealarm, (and uninstall Zonealarm). Zonealarm wont uninstall ALL of its files. And when you reboot and try and get onto the net (It locks you out of the net - lol). I know this happens, coz it happened to me! |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
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