Re: XP Repairing System.

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:16:36 +0100, Johnny B Good
<jcs.computers***@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Using FAT32 instead of NTFS on a desktop PC for the OS partition at
least, gives you a fighting chance of evicting any unwelcome guests
using nothing more complicated than a reboot with a win9x boot floppy

Every time I've ever used FAT on a Windows boot drive, Windows has
managed to spanner that boot drive all by itself, without needing help
from non-MS code. From Windows 3.0 upwards to XP.

The last time was just after I'd arrived at my three week holiday
destination, and the laptop twatted itself on the first evening after
IE froze the computer and needed a hard reboot.

FAT32 may be easier to evict unwelcome guests from, but NTFS isn't
suicidally fragile - and has never stopped me from evicting malware.

.... I've given up on it now. All my Internet-facing machines run OSX,
it's only the servers in the cellar and the gamesbox that are
homebuilts.

Cheers - Jaimie
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"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien - "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
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