Acarien

Hi to everyone! I can't wait to be a Senior Memeber... (...) I got 3 little tricks for those who are wondering how to access files on a NTFS partition: 1- You can access the Recovery Console from Win2k/XP boot menu or you can choooose Repair when you boot up the Windows CDROM. 2- If you're still not able to live without the good old DOS, you can download NTFSDOS from http://www.winternals.com. 3- Like BladeRunner said, you rarely have to boot from a floppy disk with NTFS.. FAT32 sits one the same technology used on first 80's 10MB hard disks. With operating systems like Windows 2000 and Windows XP now accessible to almost everyone, it would be stupid to choose FAT32 instead of NTFS. Here are some of the benefits: - First it got all the basic capabilities of FAT - Built-in data reliability features to prevent file and file system corruption if the system fails - Built-in file security with several access rights that can be assigned to files and directories - Built-in disk compression, no need for third-party applications to do the job and sacrifice performance - Native support for Long File Name - Fault tolerant - "NTFS is so great because it is so secure etc, blah blah blah." even Dirty Harry says that As drive sizes and the number of files on a partition increase, FAT and FAT32 operations tend to be very slow. If a system crashes while you are creating or up[censored] files or directories, FAT's on-disk structures can become inconsistent, and this can result in the loss of data being modified or general corruption of the drive. Anyways, we could talk about it for weeks, but i got to take a shower (hehe i'm a little dirty) and go to bed. Goodnight! ps: sorry for my english, i'm french...