NTFS Help

[Jerry Medina]

I have Windows XP and I read that upgrading to NTFS would
help performance, but that it ha flaws, such as: old
programs ceasing to work. Since I use some Dos-Based
games, but I wanted to upgrade to NTFS (I currently have
Win32 Fat), I my games will stop working. What do you
recommend?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

You have 2 options
1. Keep your current OS
2. Or check the link out on DOS based games below
3. You can Load XP usingFAT32 instead of NTFS
Read the link below talks about running games under XP in Dos Mode

http://www.cgonline.com/features/020226-f1-f1-pg2.html

Alvin
good luck


Jerry Medina wrote:

> I have Windows XP and I read that upgrading to NTFS would
> help performance, but that it ha flaws, such as: old
> programs ceasing to work. Since I use some Dos-Based
> games, but I wanted to upgrade to NTFS (I currently have
> Win32 Fat), I my games will stop working. What do you
> recommend?

[Jim Macklin]

You could use Partition Magic to create a partition for
DOS/FAT based programs .
XP can read both FAT32/16 and NTFS. Some DOS based programs
will not run under XP, but that is not a function of the
file system, but changes in operating code.


"Alvin A Brown" > wrote in message
...
| Hello
|
| You have 2 options
| 1. Keep your current OS
| 2. Or check the link out on DOS based games below
| 3. You can Load XP usingFAT32 instead of NTFS
| Read the link below talks about running games under XP in
Dos Mode
|
| http://www.cgonline.com/features/020226-f1-f1-pg2.html
|
| Alvin
| good luck
|
|
| Jerry Medina wrote:
|
| > I have Windows XP and I read that upgrading to NTFS
would
| > help performance, but that it ha flaws, such as: old
| > programs ceasing to work. Since I use some Dos-Based
| > games, but I wanted to upgrade to NTFS (I currently have
| > Win32 Fat), I my games will stop working. What do you
| > recommend?
|

[w_tom]

Don't know where this "DOS programs cannot use NTFS" came
from. I avoided Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 - going directly
from DOS to Windows NT and NTFS. Never had a single DOS
program have problems with the NTFS filesystem. Even now I
still use my old WordStar 4.0 sometimes on the NTFS drive.

Dos programs can have other problems such as if they try to
access hardware directly using non-standard programming
practices. Therefore some games don't work on Windows NT base
video. But I have never in 10 years seen any DOS program file
not work on NTFS. Please provide more details on this
problem. Sounds more like wild speculation from one who did
not understand what his problem was.

Jerry Medina wrote:
>
> I have Windows XP and I read that upgrading to NTFS would
> help performance, but that it ha flaws, such as: old
> programs ceasing to work. Since I use some Dos-Based
> games, but I wanted to upgrade to NTFS (I currently have
> Win32 Fat), I my games will stop working. What do you
> recommend?

[NobodyMan]

On Fri, 16 May 2003 18:33:32 -0400, w_tom > wrote:

> Don't know where this "DOS programs cannot use NTFS" came
>from. I avoided Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 - going directly
>from DOS to Windows NT and NTFS. Never had a single DOS
>program have problems with the NTFS filesystem. Even now I
>still use my old WordStar 4.0 sometimes on the NTFS drive.
>
> Dos programs can have other problems such as if they try to
>access hardware directly using non-standard programming
>practices. Therefore some games don't work on Windows NT base
>video. But I have never in 10 years seen any DOS program file
>not work on NTFS. Please provide more details on this
>problem. Sounds more like wild speculation from one who did
>not understand what his problem was.

Maybe people are assuming that running a DOS progam means they have to
use a boot floppy to get into DOS during bootup, bypassing Windows
startup. When they do that, they lose the ability to read anything on
the NTFS partition.