On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:52:52 +1000, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

>XP has a files and settings transfer wizard
>which should bring the config stuff across fine.

If you mean the User Profiles, then I can do that with Win2K.

But will this transfer wizard also copy registry settings for
installed applications? If not then I would have to reinstall nearly
100 apps.

If this transfer wizard is just an IPU, then it will copy the
contaminated parts of the Registry.

>> So I have no choice but to work around the many problems that
>> a 10 year old installation of Win NT and its spawn have to offer.

>That is just plain wrong, you do have a choice.

I am interested. Please expand. My son runs XP Pro so I can have him
research anything you comment on before I try it.

>> This one, the corrupt NTFS filesystem problem,
>> has been plaguing me for over a year.

>And if you had done your backups properly, you could have
>stepped back to the copy you had before the problem showed up.

I did not implement the backup procedure until the problems arose. I
learned my lesson - I will *always* have a backup/restore plan
implemented. When we depended on computers in business we ran a daily
backup. But I am at home and this is not mission critical.

In defense of my laxness, I can tell you that I never had serious
problems with either NT4 or the previous installations of Win2K. It
was this last installation that screwed things up.

You mentioned that I should have had a backup before I installed that
RAID application, which is high on my list of things that likely
caused the problems I had with NTFS corruption. However I persevered
with that app for about 6 months because the factory was working with
me to fix some other problems. It is very unlikely I would have kept a
backup that long, since it would have tied up a hard disk. I suppose I
could have zipped it and laid it off on DVDs but I did not think it
was necessary.

>> I converted to a FAT32 filesystem, and guess what
>> - no more corrupt NTFS filesystem. Pretty cool, eh.

>You'll likely find that if you convert it back to NTFS now it will be fine too.

I thought about that. However I do not see why I should use NTFS when
FAT 32 is working. I can't think of any substantive reason to use NTFS
in my configuration. I have a simple two-computer LAN using a NAT
router and even though I have nearly 100 installed apps, none of them
appears to require NTFS. IOW, I do not believe I need the features of
NTFS in my simple configuration. But because I am curious, I may go
back to NTFS just to see what will happen.

However, even with FAT 32, I still get two device drivers per
partition in NT Defrag and Perfect Disk. If you load NT Defrag, how
many devices do you see per partition? I asked my son to check his XP
intallation, but he is too busy making money. I have to catch him
sitting in front of his machine.


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Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
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