Re: Best place on usenet to ask about PCs

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:32:35 +0100, 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

As another poster recommended, see the microsoft support site. They have a
bit of information about these sorts of issues.

You can't read NTFS from Win98, as you surmised, and there isn't a way to
convert back. You could copy the data someplace else, reformat as FAT32,
and copy back.

However, why keep Win98 around? You can run programs in compatibility mode
if your copy of Lotus 1-2-3 doesn't run under XP. Test it for your app.
See 'Properties:compatibility'.

One of my PCs shipped with Windows ME, which is a version of '98.
Upgrading to XP saved me reinstalling windows every few months, as well as
the hell of having to check the disk (often taking hours) after numerous
blue-screen crashes. That never happens under XP. The main issue I have
these days is that since it never gets rebooted, I run out of sockets
after 3 or 4 months, and have to reboot it to get email working again. I'm
not sure what program is leaking the sockets. This is a machine that my
kids use for games and web browsing.

I currently run dual boot with XP and linux. The easiest way to do
dual-boot is to use 'grub' as the bootloader, from a floppy. If you are
interested, email me, and I can help.

Regards,
Bob Monsen



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