Psychodad 0 Posted July 20, 2000 Hello guys! Sorry that i have written in english to you! I will try it again ... ignore my terrible spelling please! ;-) Okay now to my problem: I have a big problem with Win2k! First to my System: AMD ATHLON 600 MHZ Epox 7-KXA (4in1, 4.23 Via druvers installed, 522 Bios!) Elsa Erazor 2 (RivaTNT, nVidia 5.32 drivers) Elsa Microlink PCI (newest Win2k drivers) Netgear PCI networkcard Soundblaster LIVE! 1024 (with LW3.0 for WIn2k) Sony CD-ROM Asus DVD Seagate Barracuda 20 GB (3 OS (Win2k NTFS5, Win2k Fat32, Win98SE Fat32 IBM 6,4 GB (Fat32 Data!) And now to my problem: I have 3 Partion on my HDD! On the first Partion is Win2k installed with NTFS Datasystem! On this OS is no Via 4 in 1 drivers installed! It is very stable! On the second Parion is Win2k with Fat32 installed! This system often freez! If the system is more used (for example playing games) it freez! I have Via 4 in 1 drivers installed on this partion! Without it i have no AGP! ;-( Have you any tips for me?!? Please poste every Ideea! Are there speziell Biossettings? MFG -[sDB]-PsyChoDaD Spirit of Digital Brotherhood Share this post Link to post
gramaglia 0 Posted July 20, 2000 As I can remember, Fat32 is not advisable as a file system for a native partition of Windows 2000. I mean, Microsoft tells that Fat32 has been implemented for partitions which you can read data from for your applications, it's not been implemented for booting your Windows 2000.... I think it's the reason for your system's instability...I almost can't believe it boots! Probably it boots because the boot sector is in the primary partition, which is NTFS formatted. Anyway, I may be wrong...but I don't think so.I've never installed win2k in a fat32 partition, even the setup gives only 2 options, FAT and NTFS. Share this post Link to post
BladeRunner 0 Posted July 20, 2000 The 'Fat' option Win2000 gives you during installation is in fact Fat32. With a Win2k CD you can't actually format your HD in plain old fat, just Fat32 & NTFS. Both my HD's were formatted as Fat32 when I first installed Win2000. Since then I've changed over to NTFS on both. Fat32 is supported by Win2k and is supported as a boot partition. If anything, having an old fat partition would cause you problems - but it doesn't. ------------------ PIII 650 Coppermine, ABit BE6-II, 384MB PC100 RAM (Samsung), Matrox G400MAX, SB Live! Value, Intel 10/100 NIC, Adaptec 2940UW, IBM 7200 ATA66 22GB HD, IBM 7200 ATA66 20GB HD, Pioneer 32x/6x SCSI DVD, Yamaha 4416 SCSI CD-RW, Iomega Zip 100 SCSI Internal, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410. Windows 2000 Only Share this post Link to post
