Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

[dmccunney <den...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Rugxulo <ru...@gm...> wrote:

> Actually, if you're lucky enough to have Win2k installed atop FAT32,
> you can probably just use a DOS utilitity like FIPS or PRESZ134 to
> resize for you. Hmmm, well, you obviously don't "need" a separate
> partition for DOS in that case.  ;-)

Lucky?

One of the things I was *happy* about in moving from Win98SE to Win2K
Pro was being able to use NTFS.  IT's far more robust, and supports
the concept of file ownership and permissions.  (It supports hardlinks
and symlinks, too.)

I've spent way to much time over the years dealing with trashed FAT
file systems.  CHKDSK could assign orphaned clusters to files, but
then what? Mostly, they'd be unusable and require deletion.  When I've
had NTFS filesystem issues, CHKDSK has matter of factly recovered
orphaned orphaned clusters, assigned them to the files they belonged
to, and recreated the directory that had problems.  The only time I
saw that not happen was in the case where a directory entry happened
to be sitting on a bad disk block.

You *can* run 2K on FAT32.  I *wouldn't*.
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Dennis
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