Monday, July 16, 2007

Vista & 2000 fight it out over NFTS Permissions


I'm having nothing but problems with my large NTFS formatted data volume on Area 51. Vista erased all the data on it during the installation (nothing much); then reported errors and fixed them on reboot. Windows 2000 reported errors, and also had at it. Then, when I booted back into Vista, more errors, more fixes, more data loss.

Now, I'm reformatting the whole volume in Vista. I put a test file on the newly formatted volume, and boot into Windows 2000. No luck -- check disk runs again. It’s time to reformat as FAT32, but of course Vista only formats NTFS. Sheesh.

Monday, July 16, 2007 6:34 PM

Win2K isn’t complaining about the F: disk this time. More updates, and hardware lacking drivers.

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