[WinMac] Re: NT....

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 02 Nov 1999 00:56:21 -0500

At 04:00 PM 11/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Can someone please explain why:
>
>1) The NT CD cannot install to NT created mirrored disks

        Not quite true: This is possible on the RISC versions (AlphaNT) of NT4. On
the x86 version, the NT drivers load during the 32 bit (blue screen) part
of the boot cycle, while the installer needs to operate in the 16 bit part
of the boot cycle. Blame intel's legacy crap for that one...

>2) having the "last known good config" menu be missing cause NT to be
>unable to boot

        Sounds like a deeper problem with a corrupted registry...

>3) Why do I ever bother with NTFS since it is makes fixing anything
>essentially impossible

        Native Transactional File System... Self healing in many cases. IMHO, NTFS
(and HPFS) alone is worth the price of admission. And NTFS is a derivative
of the extremely robust mainframe file system found in OpenVMS, brought
over by Dave Cutler...

        NTFS 2.0 and higher (NT4 started using NTFS 2.0) also includes a defrag
API built in, so you don't need to buy a defragmenter: You can download
Diskeeper Lite from <http://www.diskeeper.com> which hooks in and will
defrag your drives - No need to buy Norton Utilities...

>4) Why anyone thinks an NT CD is appropriate for anything besides a
>Rottweiler's chew toy.

        Because my cat got to it first! :)

>john
>

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