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wedor Moderator |
posted December 28, 2003 08:12 AM
 
Any attempt to access the boot drive for certain functions would give you this message, it is not out of the ordinary. As always in these situations you should be certain to make a back up of all of your data first before proceeding in case of problems. IP: Logged |
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radoon Member |
posted December 27, 2003 11:59 PM
Hmmmm..... I tried what it said on the Tech board on the Microsoft site and this is what happened (I didn't have anything happen, didn't wanna wreck it by my lack of knowledge when it comes to this)  Do you want to try explaining? Also, why didn't win XP ask me to convert to NTFS when I upgraded from 98SE? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 27, 2003 04:20 PM
I never have converted a file system while I am using Windows. It should not hurt anything, during the conversion and then afterwards. NTFS is much better and more secure then FAT32. Have a look at this, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/choosing_between_NTFS_FAT_and_FAT32.asp ------------------ IP: Logged |
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radoon Member |
posted December 27, 2003 03:36 PM
And the biggest question in converting is... Is it gonna hurt my system at all? Or will it perhaps improve the system's performance? I just dont want to have the hassle of reformatting my whole drive and starting over again. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted December 27, 2003 11:47 AM
Yes you can convert to NTFS go to start run type in cmd then type C:/FS:NTFS then it will ask you the type of file system you have. You can also do convert/? to see what other switches you can do with the convert command. If you have any 9.x OS's on your system then you will not be able to see the NTFS in those OS's. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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radoon Member |
posted December 27, 2003 11:01 AM
I keep seeing all this stuff about NTFS File Systems.... but my drive is FAT32. Should I convert (if that's even possible) and if i should, how? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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wedor Moderator |
posted December 27, 2003 07:10 AM
Here is the article that describes the "enhancements" of SP1, By default in Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), if you click the Sharing tab of the Properties dialog box for the folder, and then share the folder for other users to access over the network, the folder has permissions that give everyone read-only access. In versions of Windows XP that are earlier than SP1, if you share folders by using the Sharing tab of the Properties dialog box, the folder has default permissions that gives everyone full control. NOTE: This behavior is not true for folders that you share by using the New File Share Wizard and the Net.exe command. These folders continue to have default permissions that give everyone full control. So you were correct, if you had installed XP without SP1 and later updated your system to SP1 it would not have had this issue originally, my apologies. IP: Logged |
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wedor Moderator |
posted December 27, 2003 07:07 AM
See if this page helps, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418&Product=winxp A little note, this is the default setting in XP with SP1, it may not have been before that. IP: Logged |
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radoon Member |
posted December 26, 2003 11:42 PM
Then why is it impossible to change? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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wedor Moderator |
posted December 26, 2003 07:39 PM
That would be incorrect, that is the default in "all" XP installations. IP: Logged |
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radoon Member |
posted December 26, 2003 05:58 PM
I have checked and ALL of my folders are set to Read-Only. I try to change it but as soon as I check it again its back to read-only. They weren't always that way. Some help please! ------------------ [This message has been edited by radoon (edited December 26, 2003).] IP: Logged |
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