From: Alban Kellerbauer (Alban.Kellerbauer_at_cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 16:10:01 EST
Hello Mike,
I think you are right in that as you apply SP6a, the data on the disk is
not changed. This happens at the moment when you add NT5 in a dual-boot
configuration.
Concerning the stability of NT5 and NTFS5, I have no complaints. And I
have never heard of any substantial complaints from anyone. I would
recommend it over NT4 any time, hardware and BIOS permitting.
Alban
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mike Scheer wrote:
> Alban--
>
> I am running 6A.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. For the record,
> though, the on-disk data structures appear not to be converted.
> Instead, the FS code is prepared to deal with either NTFS4 or NTFS5.
> Quoting from the readme.htm:
>
> This Service Pack contains an updated version of NTFS.sys that
> can also read NTFS Version 5 volumes created in NTFS for
> Windows 2000.
>
> So my remaining concerns have to do with the stability of W2K and
> NTFS5 specifically. Comments?
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> --Mike
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:33:14 +0100 (CET), you wrote:
>
> >NT5 uses NTFS5. If you want to have a dual-boot configuration, you must
> >apply NT4's SP6a first which changes the file system to NTFS5. If you
> >upgrade from NT4 to NT5, the file system is automatically converted. Since
> >NT4 (with SP6a) can acces NTFS5 partitions, why would you mind?
> >
> >ALban
> >
> >On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mike Scheer wrote:
> >
> >> Some time ago it was reported that installing W2K on a system with
> >> NTFS4 partitions would automatically change those partitions to NTFS5,
> >> and that there was no way to suppress the change. Does anyone know if
> >> this situation has changed? Thanks.
> >>
> >> --Mike Scheer
> >>
> >
>
>
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