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Cheers, Ray
One other thing is I have successfully reinstalled XP over itself 1 time,
and lost nothing but 2 apps I had to reinstall, one was GPL the other was
ICQ and maybe Roger wilco/teamspeak? everything else was fine, but then I
had to re-update the hell out of XP, and man, what a beech that is, over
dialup :)
You had to reinstall GPL? Why so? I didn't think it needed any registry
entries or anything - i've certainly just copied it over when I install a
new O/S.
Ash
http://www.siroccoracing.com
Im not sure, seemed that it would boot and crash, so I "moved" the install I
already had to TEMP, then installed from CD, then deleted (via explorer) and
then moved Mine back. Then it Ran fine.
On a second note, Here is a question for you!
I ran Vroc once in a while, then I probably haven't had time to do so, for
say 1 or 2 months (was working fine and this was long after recovery
reinstall XP, but might have been since the blaster updates and the xp
Service pack 1a? not sure on my time frame...) Anyway, I loaded WinVrock
up last week, try to join a game, crash to, well it took hard reset/endtask
to get out. But even still, GPL runs fine stand alone... haven't done
diddley that I know of for about 6 or seven months except a while back there
was a new Vroc something or other to be able to see the serverlists, and of
course the mirror/connection thing... anyone or you had this happen before?
I could reinstall, try and find all the GPLEA cars, as I have NOT done any
of the scenery updates for any tracks yet. Wish someone would put all the
most popular car-tracks & gfx stuff onto a CD, for me... <wink> dialup
sux. if I get it all scoped out again I guess Ill try and make one. But
right now not being able to WinVrock into any races kinda took the wind out
of doing anything of the sort. Thank Gawd for NR2003 and PWF CTS addons..
:)
unless you also have win98 on your computer, you can safely go with NTFS
make sure you do backup your data from time to time as it's harder to
recover NTFS for reasons already mentioned
I love the way you don't have to run scandisk when you don't shut down
properly using NTFS
> Im not sure, seemed that it would boot and crash, so I "moved" the install
I
> already had to TEMP, then installed from CD, then deleted (via explorer)
and
> then moved Mine back. Then it Ran fine.
> On a second note, Here is a question for you!
> I ran Vroc once in a while, then I probably haven't had time to do so, for
> say 1 or 2 months (was working fine and this was long after recovery
> reinstall XP, but might have been since the blaster updates and the xp
> Service pack 1a? not sure on my time frame...) Anyway, I loaded
WinVrock
> up last week, try to join a game, crash to, well it took hard
reset/endtask
> to get out. But even still, GPL runs fine stand alone... haven't done
> diddley that I know of for about 6 or seven months except a while back
there
> was a new Vroc something or other to be able to see the serverlists, and
of
> course the mirror/connection thing... anyone or you had this happen
before?
> I could reinstall, try and find all the GPLEA cars, as I have NOT done any
> of the scenery updates for any tracks yet. Wish someone would put all the
> most popular car-tracks & gfx stuff onto a CD, for me... <wink> dialup
> sux. if I get it all scoped out again I guess Ill try and make one. But
> right now not being able to WinVrock into any races kinda took the wind
out
> of doing anything of the sort. Thank Gawd for NR2003 and PWF CTS addons..
> :)
> > > One other thing is I have successfully reinstalled XP over itself 1
> time,
> > > and lost nothing but 2 apps I had to reinstall, one was GPL the other
> was
> > > ICQ and maybe Roger wilco/teamspeak? everything else was fine, but
then
> I
> > > had to re-update the hell out of XP, and man, what a beech that is,
over
> > > dialup :)
> > You had to reinstall GPL? Why so? I didn't think it needed any
registry
> > entries or anything - i've certainly just copied it over when I install
a
> > new O/S.
> > Ash
> > http://www.siroccoracing.com
Fat32 is good for long writes to disk. NTFS is good for short quick 'burst'
disk access.
I use Fat32 because I backup a lot of my sims, some up to 15gig in size, so
Fat32 performs better. Plus I can see it all in 98 / 2000 and XP.
But I use NTFS for security reasons at work. Still performs pretty good,
but is a little slower.
hope that helps,
James
> Fat32 is good for long writes to disk. NTFS is good for short quick
'burst'
> disk access.
> I use Fat32 because I backup a lot of my sims, some up to 15gig in size,
so
> Fat32 performs better. Plus I can see it all in 98 / 2000 and XP.
> But I use NTFS for security reasons at work. Still performs pretty good,
> but is a little slower.
> hope that helps,
> James
> > Hey,
> > Just curious about ntfs or fat32. what is the best one to use for games
> > drive with xp os? 1 phsical hard drive partitioned into 2 drives. my c
> drive
> > is just os and other programs (ntfs). my D drive (games) is fat32. Just
> > wondering if i should convert it to ntfs. anyone? t.i.a.
> > --
> > Cheers, Ray
Todd
> >thanks for the replies, ok, so what I'm hearing from you all is that
fat32
> >is better for the games( better performance ie faster=good) and ntfs is
more
> >stable but runs the games a bit slower=bad
> Heavy emphasis on "bit" in "bit slower". The performance loss is
> minimal compared to the stability of the filesystem. I wouldn't use
> FAT32 any more.
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This is exactly the case. As long as you are an XP Pro admin you can slave
*any* NTFS drive (back to NT 4 in my experience) and read the contents. I
do this routinely when saving client's systems.
The one exception is if you use Encrypted File System to protect files. You
must have previously exported your keys to removable media and then install
the keys on the rescue machine... otherwise those files will be unreadable.
BTW, Recovery Console on the XP CD had gotten me out of trouble countless
times. It's super basic but you can get in and sometimes repair the
problem.
D.
