----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@paradise.net.nz>
To: "PIC List" <PICLIST@mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:18 PM
Subject: [OT] NTFS risky?


> I've had years of experience with FAT32 formatted HDDs but limited
> experience of what I can expect from NTFS formatted HDDs.
>
> I have a system with 3 x Parallel IDE drives on it (30 GB to 10 GB
> each) and 2 x SIDE 300 GB NTFS drives.
> The boot drive is one of the parallel IDE drives. System is WINDOWS
> XPHome
> The system is used as an informal server. The two SIDE drives are
> largely mirrored by use of user controlled backup software. The
> majority of data is photo files.
>
> 1.    It's been suggested that after a system crash NTFS drives may be
> reluctant to allow you to access them in a rebuilt system or if
> transferred to another system.
>
> Thoughts?
>

>

I had a machine in for repair (ex wifes) and the hard drives were formatted 
in NTFS and also secured to the users. Putting the drives in a spare machine 
resulted in no access to them.

Booting the machine with Knoppix however gave me full access to the drives 
and I managed to copy all the information over the network to a remote 
machine.

Suprisingly easy.

Dom 

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