Re: XP upgrade: FAT32 to NTFS

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 03/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:07:57 +0200

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:57:21 GMT, Michael Cecil <macecil@comcast.net>
>On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:52:21 +0200, "cquirke (MVP Win9x)"
><cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote:
>>On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:19:27 -0700, "Bruce Chambers"

>>> And you forgot to mention that an NTFS partition, being less
>>>likely to have problems in the first place, is much less likely to
>>>ever need the sort of "heroic" recovery tools

>Right. Journaling makes errors so less likely to happen. :)

Nope, journalling does SFA to help when it comes to hardware flakiness
or hard drive failures. How could it?

>Sticking with FAT32 because you're afraid you'll lose your data is like
>buying a car with guaranteed quick body removal after a wreck, when you
>should just be buying the car with good brakes and steering that avoids
>the wreck in the first place.

Nope. If NT's customary environment is like urban driving in a city
with computerised repair centers of every corner, or well-maintained
highways for the open road, then consumerland is like farm roads with
amateur spanner-and-pliers maintenance from the farmer next door.

If I wanted to cross the desert, I'd want a Land Rover I could fix
myself; preferably with a second back-up vehicle carrying extra spares
and a winch. I wouldn't try it in a Rolls Royce with the hood welded
shut, no matter how well the latter runs in the city.

Perhaps it depends on what service norms you are used to...

SysAdmin: ' Oh well, it's only a workstation, everything that matters
is on the server, so I'll just wipe and re-image it '

BigOEM Support: "Insert the Instant Restore CD and press the reset
button, it will nuke you back to the factory setup. Sorry, if you
don't follow our instructions, we can't help you <click> "

...but round here, we expect better than that. With FATxx, we get it.

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