Does GPL not run on NTFS partitions?
Ian P
Odd. GPL ran fine for me on all the XP betas, but now that I have the final
it doesn't work. I thought it might have been the NTFS partition.
> > It ran fine (for me) on Win 2000 using NTFS.
> > Ian P
> Odd. GPL ran fine for me on all the XP betas, but now that I have the
final
> it doesn't work. I thought it might have been the NTFS partition.
Cheers
Murray
The functionality of software (except disk utilities, etc) doesn't depend on
the partition type. Your OS performs the "conversion" for you from disk
format to actual file.
That said, GPL works great in W2K (NTFS5) and XP (NTFS6?).
Dale.
Voodoo3 and SBLive. The only thing I've done differently between the
preview copies of XP and the release copy is converting the partition from
FAT32 to NTFS. I'm not too worried about it. My hardware is due for an
upgrade so maybe a new video card will solve the problems.
> The functionality of software (except disk utilities, etc) doesn't depend
on
> the partition type. Your OS performs the "conversion" for you from disk
> format to actual file.
> That said, GPL works great in W2K (NTFS5) and XP (NTFS6?).
> Dale.
Very odd. I guess I'll convert the partition back to FAT32 for my games.
-Andrew
:
: This is true in theory but not always true in reality. I copied GPL to a
: jaz drive that I formatted as FAT32 and it now works. Still doesn't run
: from the NTFS partition though.
:
Unless your system is really f'd up there's something else at work here than
file system weirdness. If you care anymore :-) there are a few other things
to try:
Do you have full permissions to the NTFS partition (*and* the
folder/subfolders) that holds GPL? Try moving the GPL folder to your system
partition (which you should have full access to). Make sure you're logged
in as an administrator.
If you move files/folders to FAT32 all security is discarded which could
explain your recent success with GPL.
Dale.
> :
> : This is true in theory but not always true in reality. I copied GPL to
a
> : jaz drive that I formatted as FAT32 and it now works. Still doesn't run
> : from the NTFS partition though.
> :
> Unless your system is really f'd up there's something else at work here
than
> file system weirdness. If you care anymore :-) there are a few other
things
> to try:
> Do you have full permissions to the NTFS partition (*and* the
> folder/subfolders) that holds GPL? Try moving the GPL folder to your
system
> partition (which you should have full access to). Make sure you're logged
> in as an administrator.
> If you move files/folders to FAT32 all security is discarded which could
> explain your recent success with GPL.
> Dale.
I was able to get GPL to work on an NTFS drive, but my problem still isn't
solved. I formated my jaz drive as NTFS (G:), installed GPL applied the 1.2
patch and it worked! GPL still doesn't run from the C drive after
following the same steps for the jaz drive installation. So maybe it's not
NTFS but my system config.
-Andrew
> > :
> > : This is true in theory but not always true in reality. I copied GPL
to
> a
> > : jaz drive that I formatted as FAT32 and it now works. Still doesn't
run
> > : from the NTFS partition though.
> > :
> > Unless your system is really f'd up there's something else at work here
> than
> > file system weirdness. If you care anymore :-) there are a few other
> things
> > to try:
> > Do you have full permissions to the NTFS partition (*and* the
> > folder/subfolders) that holds GPL? Try moving the GPL folder to your
> system
> > partition (which you should have full access to). Make sure you're
logged
> > in as an administrator.
> > If you move files/folders to FAT32 all security is discarded which could
> > explain your recent success with GPL.
> > Dale.
> My system isn't completely f'd up but it is a little strange. My system
> drive with XP is D: and my data drive with my games is C: Probably not
a
> common choice of partitioning, but I had 98 installed on C and didn't want
> to upgrade.
> I was able to get GPL to work on an NTFS drive, but my problem still isn't
> solved. I formated my jaz drive as NTFS (G:), installed GPL applied the
1.2
> patch and it worked! GPL still doesn't run from the C drive after
> following the same steps for the jaz drive installation. So maybe it's
not
> NTFS but my system config.
> -Andrew
No it's not compressed. I thought it might be a size issue. My C (data)
drive has 10 gigs free, but my D (system) drive only has a little over a
gig. It runs from neither. Really a strange situation since I had
virtually the same configuration when I was running XP release candidate 1 &
2. It's connected to NTFS somehow, I'm just not sure how. I tried to use
the Microsoft convert.exe to change the partition back to FAT32 but it won't
do it. It only seems to convert to NTFS and not the other way around.
-Andrew
Had trouble getting GPL to run on an NTFS partition. Converted the
partition back to FAT32 and everything works.
> > Is the volume/folder you're installing it all to compressed? GPL doesn't
> > like that.
> > --
> > Remove guts to reply
> No it's not compressed. I thought it might be a size issue. My C (data)
> drive has 10 gigs free, but my D (system) drive only has a little over a
> gig. It runs from neither. Really a strange situation since I had
> virtually the same configuration when I was running XP release candidate 1
&
> 2. It's connected to NTFS somehow, I'm just not sure how. I tried to use
> the Microsoft convert.exe to change the partition back to FAT32 but it
won't
> do it. It only seems to convert to NTFS and not the other way around.
> -Andrew
> > Is the volume/folder you're installing it all to compressed? GPL doesn't
> > like that.
> > --
> > Remove guts to reply
> No it's not compressed. I thought it might be a size issue. My C (data)
> drive has 10 gigs free, but my D (system) drive only has a little over a
> gig. It runs from neither. Really a strange situation since I had
> virtually the same configuration when I was running XP release candidate 1
&
> 2. It's connected to NTFS somehow, I'm just not sure how. I tried to use
> the Microsoft convert.exe to change the partition back to FAT32 but it
won't
> do it. It only seems to convert to NTFS and not the other way around.
> -Andrew