Re: XP is great

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:33:22 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:07:45 -0700, Bob Monsen <rcsurname@xxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:13:10 -0400, Mark Jones wrote:
>>
>>> What the hell are you guys doing to corrupt your WinXP installs? I've
>>> heard bad
>>> reports about the SP2, but other than that XP is more stable and robust
>>> than 2K.
>>>
>>>
>>Agree completely. XP is the first microsoft OS I've actually trusted.
>>Versions with the old kernel, and the FAT32 file system, are simply too
>>likely to fail and take your file system with it. XP allows FAT32, but if
>>any of you are still running it, CONVERT NOW! You can easily convert to
>>NTFS, which is head and shoulders above FAT32, in terms of reliability.
>>
>[snip]
>
>FAT32 still exists? Sheeeesh!
>
> ...Jim Thompson

My brand-new Dell/Xp systems came with two partitions on c: One is
FAT32, one is NTFS. Anybody know why?

John



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