Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:02:56 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: [OT] NTFS is fast at fsck/chkdsk NOT ! |
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Hi Olaf.
> Adding a bit of steam, I just have this warning to those > unfortunate fellows who still need to run NT: don't boot NT with > a ZIP disk in the drive. I did this once with an almost emtpy > disk (VFAT fs, of course) and gave up after ~15 min of chkdsk > (or however this is called today). Flip the switch (of course > IBM still don't think a reset button is useful :-P), eject the > disk, all is fine. No FS errors.
I remember reading somewhere about patches for both Win9x and WinNT to deal with this problem. As far as I can recall, the patch makes WinXX treat a ZipDisk as a floppy drive as far as bootup is concerned, so it doesn't consider running chkdsk/scandisk on them...
Mick: I believe you grabbed the Win9x version, but do you know anything about a WinNT version?
Best wishes from Riley.
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