From: R. Herbert Ringis (rringis_at_DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 12:15:11 EST
Amen to that.
Been a cursing Window$ user since Windows 3.1. Have five units in my home,
not counting two older TP's, with various iterations of Window$. Migrating
them all to W2K - BUT not using NTFS for the reasons stated by Rob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Bell" <RobDBell_at_netscape.net>
To: <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [600X] Scrambled "Shutdown" Image in W98SE and another odd
problem
> 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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