Whoever said the Windows upgrade scheme sucks WAS RIGHT!

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I'm going to format my comp when i'm finished backin up my files so it would be GREATLY appreciated if someone could make a startup disk and email me the files in a ZIP preferably 2000 so i can use NTFS or tell me how to make one with Win XP pro cuz i couldn't figure it out and any longer trying i was going to smash my DAW

email: sun1237@aol.com

thanks
 
scratch the NTFS article someone posted an article that says FAT32 is better for audio
 
>>scratch the NTFS article someone posted an article that says FAT32 is better for audio<<

That is SOOOO not true!!!!!! Whoever said that needs to stop smoking whatever he is on!

http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8294

FAT32 is a legacy file system based on DOS. NTFS is new from the ground up and has nothing to do with FAT. Fragmentation is minimal and cluster sizes are way more effcient.

NTFS is the way to go for efficiency and performance and data security.
 
I'm sure the NTFS file system is more efficient, but I wouldn't want to deal with all the software incompatibilities of any of the NTFS OS's. I'm stickin' with '98.

If you've got the incompatibilities figured out, all the more power to ya. However, I use WIN2000 at work, and I can't figure out how to make a WIN2000 startup disk (whatever happened to the SYS command?). I can make an emergency repair disk, but that only has AUTOEXEC.NT & CONFIG.NT on it.
 
Win2k

The Windows 2000 CD is a bootable CD. You don't need boot disks. That is what you run when you have problems anyways. There is no SYS command because Win2k has nothing to do with DOS.

Not sure what you mean by NTFS incompatabilities since it can read FAT16 and FAT32 partitions and software you install on it doesn't even know the difference between FAT and NTFS.

NTFS has been around since NT 3.1 came out way back in 1993 - all its bugs have been worked out a long time ago...
 
how do u make the comp boot from ur CD drive...?? or does it do it automatically?
 
Bootable CD

You have to go into your computer's BIOS and look at the boot order settings. The CD-ROM should be scanned for bootble media before your harddrive.

I set mine to the following scan order:

1. 3.5" floppy
2. CD-ROM
3. HD

If it doesn't find bootable media on the first two, it will just boot off the HD.
 
Personally, I have seen nothing written by anyone, anywhere, that convinces me that either NTFS or Fat32 are inherantly better than the other for audio recording. Fat16 dates back to DOS, not Fat32. NTFS has many security improvements that make it better to use on servers and whatnot, but for a data partition on a single workstation I don't think it makes a bit of difference in temps of performance. You would want to use Fat32 if you have a multi-boot system (2000/XP and Win98 for example); otherwise flip a coin.

I have been told that XP gets rid of the ability to make a "startup" disk, if so that's a drag. If prompted to make a "recovery" disk during installation, you should do it.
 
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