[WinMac] NTFS is great... When actually used!


Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:17:07 -0500


        Dear Alex,

        You weren't using NTFS (Native Transaction File System)... You were using
FAT16 (unless you also have a FAT32 driver for NT). NTFS monitoring thread
couldn't watch out for your disk because you weren't using it! :)

        Do you have an Intellistation M or ZPro? Also, are you running with one or
two CPU's?

        BTW, in addition to a FAT32 driver for NT there is also a very good TSR &
.VXD called NTFSDOS, which allows DOS and win95 to read NTFS partitions...
Including compressed files & directories! Both of these are by Bryce
Cogswell & Mark Russinovich...

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 06:45 PM 1/12/99 -0500, Alex wrote:
>> 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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