Re: NTFS &FAT Compatibility

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Thanks, sorry for disappearing - 'Unsupported' yes, but I can still download
sdk's and sp's - one fine day, they'll remove it all together.

Yes, I know the file systems are different, but in the documentation that I
was able to find, microsoft states that NTFS has retained functionality from
FAT, as I understand it - only adding parts by wrapping it in new
functionallity to enhance speed and security.

As I am starting all over by refreshing old knowledge, I would like to stick
to concepts I am familiar with already, I am not trying to write a
de-fragger, but I have pondered an analyzer-sort-of statistics toll, just to
uncork the bottle - do you know where I can get to read about the 'salient
points'?

If you cannot sniff your way along the track of allocated files, does that
mean that the system is already dynamically maintaining statistics in some
structure somewhere?

Tony. . .


"Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam> wrote in message
news:Oixc4g6DGHA.2436@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> First, VC 6 is no longer in the support cycle - it ended a couple of years
> ago. Second, NTFS and FAT are completely different file systems and the
> concept of walking the file allocation chain no longer applies.
>
> Mike.
>
> "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:O9KGno5DGHA.2088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Dear group - I decided to dig out my old VC6.0 before I wake up and find
> it
>> unsupported one day. I need to start over from scratch and wonder if
> anybody
>> could point me to a 'good read' (web resource would be fine) on the file
>> allocation structure of NTFS. Something including a discussion on the
>> technology of 'walking the structure of allocated files'. I know it
>> should
>> be compatible with FAT, but do not know if that is the same as assuming
> this
>> specific part of the two to be identical?
>>
>> DOS Programming litterature used to document the filesystem down to the
> very
>> bone - with windows I can't seem to find almost anything at all!
>>
>> One otherly thing is: when the installation exited, it tried to send me
>> to
> a
>> registration page, but failed miserably - does this mean that microsoft
>> removed it and that it can no longer be registered?
>>
>>
>> TIA. Oh, and HNY all!
>>
>> Tony. . .
>>
>>
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>>
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