Re: NTFS hard drives problem

Only slightly relevant to your post but, seeing as you are wildly swapping hardware aournd all over the place and you mentioned converting from Fat32 to NTFS - before converting, (and of course having that tried and tested backup ready to hand, should it all go horribly wrong), you should of course shunt everything up away from the front end of the hard disk being converted to attain an optimal cluster size. e.g. use BootItNg "Slide" from
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

regards, Richard


"KarlB" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:zfwYg.35446$iA5.7373@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi....

A few months back I switched from FAT32 to NTFS. I'm beginning to wish I
hadn't....

A couple of days ago I disconnected the hard drive in a back-up computer and
replaced it with a blank one in order to test a slipstreamed SP2 XP install
CD I had created. During the installation the computer crashed, showing a
blue screen (A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to
prevent damage...) and then would not boot nor show video out. In
troubleshooting, I replaced virtually everything in the computer except the
motherboard and CPU, because I just have the one of each type.

So I dug another spare computer out of the closet and put the original hard
drive from the broken computer into it. The XP boot process was EXTREMELY
slow, eventually resulting in the blue screen.

I took a spare drive (also previously formatted under NTFS), wiped it and
tried to install XP from scratch. During the process the drive operated
extremely slow, eventually coming up with that blue screen again.

I removed yet another spare computer from the closet, and tried again, same
result.

I tried about four different hard drives (ALL previously formatted with
NTFS) in two different computers all with the same results.

I tried to re-format a drive to FAT32 (FDisk said I did!), but no luck
installing XP there either. I even tried a Windows98SE install, all with the
same results.

What the hell is going on with this? Do NTFS-formatted drives simply refuse
to operate in a different computer or a different file system from where it
was originally formatted???

I never had any problem when I was using FAT32, under which moving a drive
to a different PC resulted in no problem other than having to install new
drivers.








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