[WinMac] Re: NT is so great...

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:45:02 -0500

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> Now, let's contrast this with NTFS: NT has its own disk repair utility
>built in. Also, there is a thread (process) that *constantly* monitors NTFS
>integrity, and reports inconsistencies in the System table in the Event Log.

You know, that's funny. I keep hearing everybody raving about NT being so
great and all (and it's certainly a heck of a lot better than Windoze
95), but I just had a very strange thing happen to me at work:

I have an IBM intellistation, with a BIOS password and a passworded
screen-saver (I'm telling you this so you know it would be very hard for
my co-workers to get into my machine). Last thursday I left it on, took
off for the weekend (took friday off) and when I came back on monday, hit
ctrl-alt-delete, logged in and everything froze! For no reason at all. No
co-worker touched the machine (I turn the monitor off), it was still
running its screen saver, same as I left it when I got back.

I rebooted, NT ran it's wonderful checkdisk and started deleting ALL my
directories because it couldn't read them!!!! I've never had this happen
on a Mac. I rebooted into 95, ran checkdisk, took forever "fixed" a whole
buncha things (I'm using a FAT partition for both). Rebooted into NT, it
ran its checkdisk again, booted up, when I try to acces an app or
double-click on anything it just hangs! A lot of activity on the hard
drive but nothing. I haven't had time to troubleshoot it too much (bee
teaching a class) but am very surprised at this.

Granted it could be a virus but we have McAfee and while I was gone
nobody was using the machine. We have a T1 connection to the internet but
we also are going through a proxy server. I doubt that it's a virus on
the network because no one elses machine seems to be affected.

Any ideas?

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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