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xepherys · 06-25-2007, 10:23 PM

Erm, well... there are some half-truths here that need to be dispelled. First of all, NTFS and FAT32 are different items in the same category. I'm pretty sure you all get that and it's more likely that I'm misinterpreting some of these responses, but I just wan to make sure.

From a system installed on a FAT32 partition, you can not, by default, work with an NTFS partition. The primary reason for this is security. The security features available on NTFS are not on FAT32, and the FAT32-installed operating system does not have an y default measures to work with it.

That being said, there are third party utilities that can allow you to access it. They work, but also have a higher risk of failure, and thus data corruption, so unless your data is rather unimportant, I'd forego it.

The items I notice here are... why are you running Windows ME? You should be able to pick up Win98SE for like... pennies on the dollar these days. Windows ME was, by and large, the worst OS that Microsoft has ever put out. It's buggy and data corruption runs rampant on it. I'm shocked that anyone still HAS A WORKING ME install. Hell, MS themselves disavowed ME within months of it's release, and cut support for it as soon as they possibly could. Window 2000 has pretty easy hardware requirements to fill (not much tougher than ME), should be found pretty cheap, and works much better. I also believe that 2000 has NTFS support.

06-25-2007, 10:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	Erm, well... there are some half-truths here that need to be dispelled. First of all, NTFS and FAT32 are different items in the same category. I'm pretty sure you all get that and it's more likely that I'm misinterpreting some of these responses, but I just wan to make sure. From a system installed on a FAT32 partition, you can not, by default, work with an NTFS partition. The primary reason for this is security. The security features available on NTFS are not on FAT32, and the FAT32-installed operating system does not have an y default measures to work with it. That being said, there are third party utilities that can allow you to access it. They work, but also have a higher risk of failure, and thus data corruption, so unless your data is rather unimportant, I'd forego it. The items I notice here are... why are you running Windows ME? You should be able to pick up Win98SE for like... pennies on the dollar these days. Windows ME was, by and large, the worst OS that Microsoft has ever put out. It's buggy and data corruption runs rampant on it. I'm shocked that anyone still HAS A WORKING ME install. Hell, MS themselves disavowed ME within months of it's release, and cut support for it as soon as they possibly could. Window 2000 has pretty easy hardware requirements to fill (not much tougher than ME), should be found pretty cheap, and works much better. I also believe that 2000 has NTFS support. __________________ The prospect of achieving a peace agreement with the extremist group of MILF is almost impossible... -- Emmanuel Pinol, Governor of Cotobato My Homepage