Re: Best place on usenet to ask about PCs


Pooh Bear wrote:
I just installed Win XP on a secondary drive in my system here.

I have a couple of queries but not sure which group's best to go ask.

One that ppl here may know. I suspect that NTFS paritions can't be read by W98.
That means I shouldn't have converted from FAT32 I reckon. Duh !

Another oddball one. XP doesn't like my Highpoint 370 Raid controller it seems.
Even though I got the XP driver from Highpoint's site, XP baulks at it,
complaining about an ini file being wrong.

Anyone running dual boot btw ?

Any clues welcome.

Graham


Try microsoft.public.windowsxp.*, or the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
http://support.microsoft.com

Apparently, this will allow you to *read* NTFS volumes from Win98:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html

If you have a spare FAT32 drive handy, you might be able to shuffle the
files onto that. Use a USB-to-IDE cable, to make yourself a USB drive
at 1/3 the cost of an off-the-shelf USB drive:
http://www.computernyc.com/usbtoideexad.html

(found from pricewatch.com, under Cables, USB to IDE)

Why are you running Win98, anyway? Win2000 is much more stable...

Good luck.

Michael

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