From: Rob Bell (RobDBell_at_netscape.net)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 11:46:34 EST
Steve,
I've been running Windows 2000 on numerous systems since the betas were
out. My experience has been VERY different than yours. From what I've
seen, Win2K is ultimately the most stable and usable Windows platform
yet. In the several years that I've been using Win2K I could count the
crashes on one hand, and none of them were ever catastrophic or
unrecoverable. One thing that may have helped my experience is that
I've always done fresh installs, never upgrading over other OSs, but
that is valid for any version of Windows. Your criticism about not
being able to boot from a floppy to fix stuff is accurate but misguided.
That is actually a feature of Win2K security (as it was in NT4). To
secure a system, formatting the drive with NTFS makes it almost
impossible to access the data on the HD without actually booting up and
logging into that system. If you prefer to not use this level of
security, you can make your system partition FAT32. Then you can boot
with a floppy and access the C: drive.
Sounds like you've had some unfortunate experiences with Win2K. I don't
blame you for being upset, but your experience is definitely not the norm.
Rob
stevec50_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Speaking of W2K, I've tried that and it sucks as badly
> as other versions of Windows! Actually, it's worse
> because when it crashes there is no way to get it
> going again or repair it and recover any of your
> files! You can't even boot from a DOS floppy and
> access anything in the NTFS partition. Also, they
> must have 100Mb of updates for security, etc. The
> repair utility on the CD doesn't work after it is
> updated and then crashes because it doesn't recognize
> the installation as a valid copy of Windows!
>
> I had ME running OK but foolishly installed W2K
> recently. The other day I started the Windows update
> process because of all the security issues. It takes
> all day to download all the updates from the MS
> website. It's really slow! Then after the updates are
> installed it CRASHES!
>
> I got the blue screen of death at startup with a Stop
> Error and message about a file called SOFTWARE being
> missing or corrupted. Then if I try to log on as
> Administrator to use the repair console it says the
> password is incorrect! It seems that Microsoft's
> updates are worse than most of the worms out there!
> Anyone else ever had this happen after updating?
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