Re: XP Pro NTFS or FAT32?

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From: BuddyWh (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:10:29 -0500

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:10:48 -0500, Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov>
wrote:

>NTFS! It's a journaling file system, which means that it keeps track
>of what it's doing in a way that allows it to recover from system
>crashes.

I have had that situation before... NT crashed, is corrupt and won't
start but there is NO WAY for me to simply boot to a DOS disk,
navigate the NTFS directories in command line and copy out the
files/directories I want to recover, then format and re-install. That
caused me no end of grief trying to figure out how to get my files
out.

I'm sure that there are plenty of specialized tools and utilities that
can be purchased, plus a lot of extra training, but why should I have
to? Everything should be furnished with the OS and what could be
simpler than DOS? If using FAT32 I only need a Win98SE boot disk and
a second IDE hard drive to xcopy the recovered files too.