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Windows 7 and general bitching about OSes
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: iindigo on January 27, 2009, 07:58:02 PM ---It may just be a side-effect of Windows itself, but NTFS has always felt a little flakey to me.
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See your problem right there? Here you go with feelings again. I though we talked about that the last time :)
--- Quote ---I've had it do things like make normal, unhidden files stored on a perfectly good drive show up just fine on one system and then pretend to not even exist when hooked up to another. Other than that, I don't really know how to describe it. It's not the drives I'm using, either - the same exact drives work fine when formatted with ext2/3 or HFS+...
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Linux and Mac have either limited NTFS reading capabilities or sometimes not capable of it at all. It has nothing to to with the NTFS at all. NTFS works like a charm with windows - OS it was designed for. For linux there are great guides out there how to work with NTFS.
SeanSadistiK:
I'm really hoping it doesn't suck, because my mother is going to have to get it on her laptop since her vista fails so horribly, and if I have to put up with her complaining, I am stabbing Bill Gates.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: SeanSadistiK on January 27, 2009, 08:33:49 PM ---I'm really hoping it doesn't suck, because my mother is going to have to get it on her laptop since her vista fails so horribly, and if I have to put up with her complaining, I am stabbing Bill Gates.
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Learn to use linux. It's not that god damn hard.
kyanwan, your setup isn't that messed up. 98 sucked, 98 SE was good. and I think ME was after 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
Windows 7 isn't bad. I get the random BSOD, but it IS a beta build. So it should be ok in the proper version. (delayed indefinitely till quality control checks out)
AceHigh:
--- Quote ---Learn to use linux. It's not that god damn hard.
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He wants less complaining, not more.
PowerMac:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 27, 2009, 08:27:45 PM ---Linux and Mac have either limited NTFS reading capabilities or sometimes not capable of it at all. It has nothing to to with the NTFS at all. NTFS works like a charm with windows - OS it was designed for. For linux there are great guides out there how to work with NTFS.
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You would be Correct. Mac OS X can only read NTFS drives, not write to them and its not even that good at reading. You can use 3rd party programs to write to NTFS drives but ive never found them to be very reliable. Linux may or may not support NTFS depending on the distro, however you can easily add NTFS support to linux.
Still when I want storage that can be access by all three OSes I use FAT32, never fails :).
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