>> 2.) Presently I'm running DX4WIN on my PC with Win2K Pro with a FAT32 file >> system... Has anyone converted over to NTFS??? Can I do this on my new >> PC and move all my DX4WIN files onto this new NTFS/HD???? Help!!!
By all means set up your new computer with NTFS! We have a lot of power glitches here in the Seattle area. I have 3 machines that run 24x7 - Win2K, WinXP-Pro and Linux. Both Win machine have NTFS on both the system and user partitions. The Linux machine runs the ext2fs. I recently had reinstall Linux. We had had a couple of dips big enough to take down the computers. The Win machines came right back. On the Linux box, Mandrake would not boot, or if it did would only come up in console mode. I would repair it by booting to my Debian partition and running fsck (file system check) to repair the disk. After the second repair it just "wasn't quite right". Bottom line, the Linux box now has a UPS. I'm not so worried about the Win boxes. The NTFS file system is very rugged compared to FAT and FAT32. I would also pass along a hint. When you install Win2K on the new computer don't use the whole disk as C:, Save part of it to use as D: and keep your data files there. After you install DX4WIN, move the log from the default location to D:\... That way if you ever *should* have to reinstall Win2K you can reformat C: and be *sure* that you're getting a clean install. All your data will be on the D: partition and you won't lose it in the reformat operation. Cheers, -rick
