Re: hard drive limitations

From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:34:38 -0700

I would really suggest sticking with NTFS. As for accessing files in
case of a system crash, try this program (I always use it):
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml 

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Nathan McNulty
septemberschild wrote:
> I have had bad experiences with NTFS, When end users do crazy things and the 
> system crashes how do you or can you access the drive to pull their files off 
> of it so you can do a re-install? With FAT32 I can boot with a floppy and 
> save any important data they need before re-doing the drive. They do not back 
> up files as they should just like having an antivirus program and not running 
> it.
> 
> "Jim Macklin" wrote:
> 
> 
>>Because FAT32 is not stable and NTFS is much more suitable 
>>for large drives, neither large hard drives nor NTFS existed 
>>when FDISK was written.
>>
>>Unless you are in need of FAT because you are dual booting 
>>an obsolete OS or have some system that does not yet support 
>>NTFS, there is no reason not to use NTFS.  Even Linux is 
>>working on NTFS support.
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
>>But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
>>
>>
>>"septemberschild" 
>><septemberschild@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
>>news:9F606E67-6841-49D3-AB64-AFBE64A4E534@microsoft.com...
>>| oh please please mighty Microsoft, find a way to remove 
>>the limitations that
>>| cause this: Why when inside of Disk Management are you 
>>able to fdisk a drive,
>>| partition
>>| it and then when you go to format it your only option is 
>>NTFS? Then if you go
>>| to the Command Window and type "format D: /fs:fat32" it 
>>will check the disk
>>| for errors which takes a long time on a 100gig HD and 
>>returns an error
>>| message that states "Disk is too large for FAT32"? But yet 
>>you can boot with
>>| a Win98 boot disk, run FDISK, re-partition, reboot then 
>>format the disk with
>>| no problem? Why is there a limitation inside of XP? Both 
>>from Disk Manager
>>| inside of Admin Tools and from the DOS window?
>>| 
>>
>>
>>

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