re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 7:33 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter Shkabara
(6 messages posted)
I don't think that NTFS per se is to blame. I ran it on NT 3.1 through NT 3.51 and
never had any problems. From other forums I have been to, it seems that Win2k and
XP have introduced a change in NTFS that indeed has a problem. Some users say that
if you format to FAT32 and then convert to NTFS the problem goes away - but the NTFS
done that way is different from formatting using XP directly. I have not tried it
yet, but am tempted to do so since my computer keeps getting corrupted - unless I
don't use shutdown!
On Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 5:18 pm, Robot wrote:
>I've been watching strains in several places about this topic. The one thing that
>I have noticed, that it is always NTFS that is the problem. That is the only common
>factor in many cases. This leads me to believe that NTFS IS SCREWED UP!!! Go for
>FAT32 every time you get the chance. If XP won't format FAT32, then get a win98
>boot disk and do it yourself. The win98 boot disk is the only piece of software
>that microsoft ever wrote without errors. fdisk and format.com are the only partition/format
>programs that I ever use, because they are the only ones that ever work. Anything
>else that tries to format FAT32 always screws it up and I have to go back and do
>it again with format.com. sigh.
>
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 |  | | |  | re: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems' (Peter Shkabara: Sun, Jan 5, 2003, 7:33 pm) |
| |  | Sins of NTFS (Down For The Count: Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 8:22 pm) |
|  | re: (Tong Narak: Tue, Jan 25, 2005, 6:43 pm) |
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