Citizen Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote
> 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,

Nope.

> then I can do that with Win2K.

2K doesnt have the files and settings transfer wizard. Thats its name.

> But will this transfer wizard also copy
> registry settings for installed applications?

Yes.

> If not then I would have to reinstall nearly 100 apps.

You do have to reinstall them, but it copys the settings/config data across.

> If this transfer wizard is just an IPU,

It isnt.

> 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.

I already did.

> My son runs XP Pro so I can have him research
> anything you comment on before I try it.

Have a look at the files and settings transfer wizard.

>>> 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.

Doesnt need to be 'mission critical', proper backups would
have avoided farting around for a year trying to fix that problem.

> In defense of my laxness, I can tell you that I never had serious
> problems with either NT4 or the previous installations of Win2K.

Thats as silly as saying that you havent had any
hardware die, so you dont need any backups.

> It was this last installation that screwed things up.

It always is.

> 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.

You should have done that if it had a problem.

> I suppose I could have zipped it and laid it off
> on DVDs but I did not think it was necessary.

And now you know that it was.

>>> 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. can't think of any substantive reason to use NTFS in my configuration.

The main reason is that FAT32 cant handle files over 4GB and once you start
using a digital TV tuner card, you will generate files much bigger than that.

> 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.

You're wrong.

> 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

THERE ARE NO SEPARATE DEVICE DRIVERS.

> in NT Defrag and Perfect Disk. If you load NT Defrag,
> how many devices do you see per partition?

Cant readily try that, I run XP on everything.

With the Disk Defragmenter in XP I have just one entry 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.

You should chain him to the machine.