From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 16:53:31 EST
> From: Rob Bell
> ... 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.
It's very easy to access an NTFS drive without logging in. You simply have
to boot from a Win2K or XP CD-ROM and select the Recovery Console. Or pull
the drive and plug it into a second machine as the second drive. Either way,
you'll be able to get to everything on the drive except for encrypted
folders.
Encrypted folders are, of course, one big advantage NTFS has over FAT32. It
is also much more robust, much less likely to suffer file system damage if,
say, you power off a machine while it's in the middle of writing to disk.
-Mike
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