From: "Gary Britt" 

OK Thanks,

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Gary
Bill Clinton gave a 2 Billion NO BID contract to Halliburton in Kosovo. Ooops.

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:41228305$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> There are only 2 things you will ever need to do to an NTFS partition. One
is
> run chkdsk /f /r once in a while to make sure everything is OK and fix
minor
> issues should you do hard powerdowns while it's writing to the disk. The
other
> thing is once the drive is more than say 75% full a defrag can help keep
it
> operating quickly. I found perfectdisk works well for defragging but there
is a
> built in defragger in W2K and up.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4121d5da$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Maybe I'll go to NTFS then, but I really like being able to boot Win98
and
> > then run speed disk or diskkeeper on the win2k partition which does a
good
> > job of defragging when running under win98.  I like being able to use
all my
> > utilities and ztreewin to do clean up and maintenance, etc on the win2k
> > partition.  None of these things are that convenient with NTFS, but
maybe
> > they would be if I knew Linux.
> >
> > Anyway, just my thoughts.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message
> > news:4121813b{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Last couple of years I've had a couple of file systems (or important
files
> > > in them) at work go bad, and without exception they were all FAT
> > formatted.
> > > We use DELL, and they for some reason supply the computers
preformatted to
> > > FAT, and sometimes they go past me to the users so quickly that I
forget
> > to
> > > convert to NTFS. After converting, not one single problem (file system
> > > related) with the NTFS computers. I wouldn't run FAT in my computers
at
> > all.
> > >
> > > So yes, it seems a lot better that way. Don't really know about
security,
> > > especially since there are so many Linuxen out there that can read
NTFS
> > just
> > > like that - I don't know how well it can be locked down really,
without
> > > additional encryption software or some such.
> > >
> > >
> > > Antti Kurenniemi
> > >
> > > "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> > > news:41214aee$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > Certainly I agree.  Does the journaling really make
that much of a
> > > > difference on a non-raid single idea or scsi drive as
regards safety
and
> > > > non-file corruption compared to Fat32?
> > > >
> > > > Gary
> > > >
> > > > "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> > > > news:koi2i0tvv2ncpq9m7a694qsdjj5pgtrlvd{at}4ax.com...
> > > > >
> > > > > Tolerance of BSOD's is a feature for me.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:17:54 -0400, "Robert Comer"
> > > > 
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >The biggest plus of NTFS is the journaling,
and what that means
is it
> > > > > >basically can take things like power outages
and BSOD's much
better
> > > > without
> > > > > >corruption of files.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >- Bob Comer
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >"Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
> > > > > >news:41208615$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > >> If you don't need NTFS for security, are
there other reasons
why
> > you
> > > > would
> > > > > >> prefer NTFS over FAT32?  I like being
able to do things with
the
> > > Win2K
> > > > on
> > > > > >> Fat32 partition that I can't so easily do
if it were NTFS.
What
> > are
> > > > your
> > > > > >> thoughts on this?
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Gary
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> "Ellen K"
 wrote in message
> > > > > >> news:a09911.061078{at}harborwebs.com...
> > > > > >>> So, that's a big deal.  Who uses FAT
any more anyway?
(Although
> > > here
> > > > > >>> it's
> > > > > >> on
> > > > > >>> the C drive of my desktop.  But I
made them format the second
HDD
> > > > NTFS.)
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> > From: "Geo."

> > > > > >>> > "Ellen K."
 wrote
in
> > > > message
> > > > > >>> >
news:sos4h0lciqhcjk25tgm2r02tuk07ihcqva{at}4ax.com...
> > > > > >>> >> That is really impressive.
> > > > > >>> > Only because nobody else has
done it on NTFS, heck on FAT
it's a
> > > > > >> standard
> > > > > >>> > feature.
> > > > > >>> > Geo.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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