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In article <ODo1U8JjEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>,
francis gérard <DEKERF AT H0TMAIL D0T C0M> wrote:
>i should add, on two of the systems where the NTLDR went missing, the client
>had installed Executive Software's Diskeeper and set it to do a boot-time
>defragmentation. i have since advised clients of mine to not use Diskeeper,
>the lite version of DK that's built-in to the OS works quite well and is
>apparently safer.
>
>--
>francis
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It's an informal survey, to say the least, but the OP didn't say.
There are was that you can get the infamous "NTLDR missing" message
when the file system, the OS, and NTLDR are fine. Messing up boot.ini
will do it. Unless you can recreate your problem and try it on FAT32
and NTFS it's hard to a say it's the fault of NTFS.
If a file system becomes unbootable, but you can put the disk into a
good machine and copy all the files I say you have an OS problem, not
a filesystem problem.
I have been responsible for a few thousand NT/w2k/xp business systems
for more than 10 years, and lots of 9x systems prior to that. The NT
systems were 95% NTFS and I can say that the 5% of the systems that
were FATxx lost more files due to reboots and hardware failure than
all the NTFS systems. There were zero problems where NTFS prevented
us from copying files. we lost no data due to NTFS.
FWIW; I use PerfectDIsk and have done ocassional boot-time defrags
hundreds of times for many years, with no problem.
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Al Dykes
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