[WinMac] Re: RE: Re: NT and losing files - heaps of questions!

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:05:35 -0400

        This is puzzling. I'm assuming that the SCSI chain is in good shape, i.e.
termination is OK, yada yada yada... Also, your
%SystemRoot%\WINNT\Profiles\TEST\PERSONAL directory isn't buried too deep,
so THAT'S not an issue, either. And I doubt if your disk structure is
corrupt, because (I assume) you ran CHKDSK first before converting to NTFS.

        If you have the space, try installing a second instance of NT4 into a
different directory and see what happens. You'll need to name it something
different, such as NTHELPER (keep it 8 characters or less). If it works,
then something is wrong with your primary NT installation. If it doesn't,
then jot down your settings, reformat and reinstall.

        [NOTE: If you can reformat the drive on another machine, so much the
better. The reason is that when you CONVERT from FAT to NTFS, you end up
with 512 byte clusters - It's OK, but not that hot. You'll want 1024, 2048,
or 4096 byte cluster sizes - No larger than 4096 bytes (because the defrag
API will not work), and no smaller than 1024 bytes (because the file record
size is 1024 bytes, which with a 512 byte cluster size can become
fragmented).]

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:36 PM 5/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hi Dan
>
>Thanks for your help - they were FAT, so I changed them to NTFS, however,
>things are still not right - read on. I created a new profile called TEST,
>saved some files and observed they were in the
>WINNT40\PROFILES\TEST\PERSONAL\ directory and restarted the machine. When
>I logged back in under the same profile, the files were gone!! Should I
>just re-format the drives - what do you suggest?
>
>
>
>>Subject: Re: NT and losing files - heaps of questions!
>>From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
>>Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:02:46 -0500
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>> Dear Richard:
>>
>> 1) I'm assuming your partitions are NTFS: If not, then use the CONVERT
>>command from an MS/DOS prompt. Native Transactional File System (NTFS) is
>>worth the price of NT all by itself;
>
>
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