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SubjectRe: [OT] NTFS is fast at fsck/chkdsk NOT !
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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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html


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