From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_att.net)
Date: Sat Dec 29 2001 - 12:06:28 EST
I installed Windows 2000 on my second hand 600x via the restore cd...
everything seemed to go fine... so I installed my programs and files and
started working... I realized as I was getting familiar with W2000 that the
restore CD had formatted my HD as a FAT32 volume.... so I boned up on FAT32
vs NTFS and learned that NTFS is preferred but FAT32 works also... well in
restarting after several program installations and a long defrag session,
scandisk ran every time and found and fixed a number of corrupted files...
after a couple of days and a little more research I found that it was
probably better to convert the drive to the native NTFS... that it was a
simple process and wouldnt mess with your data... so I converted the
drive...
Well now I no longer get all of the corrupted files but in the conversion
I've lost portions of the contents of file folders (large folders over 1GB)
and my printer and modem dont work properly...
I've checked all of the hardware and done a number of tests to the hard
drive (which is a new 20GB 30GN in one partition)
Should I try to fix things individually or should I just redo the restore cd
and start fresh? Why doesnt the restore cd give you a choice of FAT32 or
NTFS? I dont recall any choice in that regard... if I redo the restore cd,
will it go back to FAT32? If so, can I do the convert program before
installing everything and will it perform better?
Thanks for any ideas
Andrew Wells
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