From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_att.net)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 20:16:51 EST
Thanks to the couple of people who answered my cry for help... I should have
done this before losing two or three days trying to figure it out, but the
IBM drive fitness test started going nuts and would hang as it was logging
errors... so I'm assusming the drive is bad... its been making those strange
triplet seeking noises and does not sound good... I'm sending it back and
going to start fresh... is this a common problem with these new 30gn drives?
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <Mike_at_Geary.com>
To: "Andrew Wells" <ajwells_at_att.net>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: FAT32 to NTFS in W2000
> Wow, that is a real mess. It sounds like things were pretty badly
corrupted
> before you converted to NTFS, so I wouldn't have expected the conversion
to
> somehow fix things up.
>
> Yes, reformat the drive, start over from scratch, and then do the
conversion
> as soon as you're up and running. Don't do any defragmenting--that sure
> sounds like a possible culprit from your description. My own take on
> defragmenting is that it's high risk for a small benefit--something to do
> only after making a full image backup.
>
> If you want to go directly to NTFS, you could install Win2000 directly
> instead of using the recovery CD. If you don't have a regular Win2000 CD
> handy, the installation files should be in one of the archive files on the
> CD. I don't have a recovery CD in front of me, but I think I recall the CD
> has .IMZ files on it. These are actually Zip files and WinZip or any zip
> program can read them. There will be a folder in one of them containing
the
> Win2000 installation files. So you could copy those to a folder on a
> freshly-formatted FAT32 hard drive and run WINNT.EXE from there to set it
> up. Then the Win2000 setup will ask you if you want to convert to NTFS as
> part of the installation process. You'd then need to install various IBM
> drivers. (It's easier to just use the recovery CD in the normal way.)
>
> -Mike
>
> > From: Andrew Wells
> >
> > 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?
>
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