Shoutbox

well i know msgplus doesn't contain spyware

but i also know that this is a flaw within ntfs and it has been noted down by microsoft

im just informing people to be careful with it, becoz i dn't want anyone else having the same problems that i did

and cookies age means nothing to me

alot of kids younger then cookie know more then cookie and thats just life

i've known alot since before i finished high school and there was only 2 things that my it2 cert actually helped me accomplish

hit a typing speed of 80wpm with an accuracy of 99%

and how to install stuff on a Emac

which i've never done before

but i also did work placement at my local council office and i helped to sort out post network updates as they had just switched over to a 1gb server from a 100mb one

they were having some minor tcp/ip hickups

im not some kid and i do know what im talking bout

these are the problems i had and i just want people to know about them

i don't want to put people off ntfs, becoz i know it does work

it just didn't for me

and the way it bugged out on me is the same way it happened for the others

and that is when moving alot of data across which ranges in size,
and im only repeating what the email from ms actually said, and its that the large amounts of small and big files must've caused some kind of confusion in the volume bitmap

and that its (exerpt from email)

For the record this 'error' was introduced
              in windows NT 5 (Beta) RC0 which became W2K and has
              existed ever since with a few minor fixes. Previous
              versions of NTFS were rock solid relative to the
              'bitmap' error that appears like a phantom. The problem
              goes far beyond installing service packs or windows
              updates and can occur frequently. If you have a
              performance 'hit' then your 'bitmap image' could be
              damaged and needs to be repaired. If you need more
              information contact me.

i contacted him again and he told me to use partition magic to convert back to fat32 again, and then back to ntfs

i did this but the problem came back after 1 reboot

i informed him of this and he said that since the error only happens with ntfs and not fat32, and since it only happened when moving alot of data

just stick to fat32

so thats what i've done

but the bug does exist so im just putting a warning out there that this can happen

thats all i really intended

cookie is the one calling it nonsense and rumour