Re: transfer my old hdd 2 another pc or cd-r's
From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/03/04
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:46:07 -0700
The other thing I think R.C. meant to mention was that Windows 98 does
not natively support NTFS. Windows 98 cannot access nor see information
on a drive with a NTFS Filing System. Back to the car illustartion.
Windows 98 is RC's wife. She can only drive the Automatic Oldsmobile
because she doesn't know how to Manual Ford. RC (WinXP) can drive
either because he knows how both types of cars work. :)
---- Nathan McNulty R. C. White wrote: > Hi, Rich. > > I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but your thinking is still faulty, > I'm afraid. We could just let it pass, but, since you DO want to learn... > >> That's where my thinking was faulty. I always thought that a FAT >> could not see a NTFS but just the opposite was true. > > > No! FAT does NOT see at all. > > I look in my driveway and I see a Ford and an Oldsmobile. I can use > either of them that I choose. But the Ford can't use (or see) the Olds > and the Olds can't use the Ford - that simply is not the way it works. > > On my hard drive, I have some volumes formatted NTFS and some formatted > FAT. Since I'm running WinXP, I can access any of those volumes. I'm > running WinXP from Drive D:, which is formatted NTFS, but it is NOT > correct to say that NTFS is accessing ANY drive. It IS true to say that > WinXP is accessing those drives. WinXP is "seeing" and accessing both > NTFS and FAT volumes. > > One FILE system does NOT use another file system. Only OPERATING > systems use file systems. Operating systems are things like MS-DOS, > Windows (many versions from 1.0 through XP, with Longhorn on the way), > Linux, the various Apple OSes, etc. File systems are FAT (File > Allocation Table - several versions, depending on how many bits are used > to locate the allocation unit, which dictates how large a volume can be > handled), NTFS (the New Technologies File System, first used in WinNT), > and other file systems used by other operating systems. The operating > system runs the whole computer, including writing to and reading from > hard and floppy disks; volumes on the disks may each be formatted to fit > one file system. > > See this chapter from the online version of the WinXP Pro Resource Kit: > File Systems Overview > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp > > > (That URL may not hit the exact right page, but you can do some > exploring from there. Lots of good information all through that chapter.) > > If you really want to learn more about this stuff, you might want to buy > the hard-copy Resource Kit. It's expensive ($59.99 list from Microsoft > Press) and about half of it is stuff that I (and probably you) don't > need to know (how to roll out WinXP on thousands of computers in your > multi-national company, for example). But the half that does apply to > me justifies - for me - the cost of the entire book. > > RC
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