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| Why Windows? [message #74683] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 17:53   |
gam3rj
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Registered: January 2004
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I use Windows because it is efficient. I am starting to use Linux more and more everyday. I am learning about compiling and putting together a Stage 1 Gentoo OS.
My intake on this is that even though Microsoft has about 90%, it will eventually decrease. Schools, corperations, small businesses and even home users need to spend their money on other stuff. While, I'll get feedback that will say "I didn't buy Windows", it's still quite known that a very small percentage of the Windows userbase is using Windows pirated.
I'm working with my school's funding on software and hardware and to purchase all of these Windows 2000/XP operating systems completely blows the funding. We have switched to Linux terminal system and a believe that using it saves a whole lot of money, allows us to use older PCs and also gives us more to work with.
Microsoft won't stand tall forever. They don't have very many promising things to add to their next OS (and after that). I believe that their market will gradually decrease and open-source will play a big role.
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| Why Windows? [message #74702] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 19:05 |
tooncy
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Registered: February 2004
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I thought the only way to format a HD was to go into MS-DOS and type the 'fdisk' command. Heh, well thats how I've always done it  .
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Fdisk is actually for partitioning the hard drive, you nead to use format to format the drive.
In fact I don't think Windows XP even has an fdisk program. You have to use the MMC disk manager pluggin.
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On XP it's format, but lets look at windows 3.11... (An odd thing about windows 95-ME is that the 'help' command doesn't work, yet when I turn on my Toshiba, exit windows, and type 'help' (well, help|more) it displays a list of commands  .)
Anyway, done booting
FDisk - Configures a HD for use with MS-Dos
Format - formats a hard drive for use with MS-Dos
Well, Fdisk is for deleting partitions. Oh yeah, I did use Fdisk once... I had a (EDIT:) Hitachi notebook vision plus with a ton of crap on it. The drive on it was partitioned, one part with linux, and one with Windows 95. I remember, I had to delete the linux partition. Heh.
Well, you win.
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| Why Windows? [message #74759] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 23:45 |
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K9Trooper
Messages: 821
Registered: February 2003
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2000 is natively NTFS but could be installed as a FAT32 and possibly FAT16. But DOS/95 are FAT and 95OSR2/98/98SE/ME are FAT32
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WTF are you talking about:
NTFS = New Technology Filing System
NTFS is simply a filing sytem(partion type) it has nothing to do with whether the OS is based on DOS or not.
If MS wanted to they could have released a new version of DOS that could read and write to NTFS partitions but it would still be DOS. **
The deciding factor is not the partition type, but how the OS interacts with the hardware, In Windows 3.11, windows just made DOS calls and it was DOS that made the hardware calls. In Windows NT based OS'es the windows NT kernel makes direct calls to the hardware without going through a DOS layer.
** - I think there may have been some third party software that can do this.
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Short for NT File System, one of the file system for the Windows NT operating system (Windows NT also supports the FAT file system). NTFS has features to improve reliability, such as transaction logs to help recover from disk failures. To control access to files, you can set permissions for directories and/or individual files. NTFS files are not accessible from other operating systems such as DOS.
For large applications, NTFS supports spanning volumes, which means files and directories can be spread out across several physical disks.
R.I.P. TreyD. You will be missed, but not forgotten.
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| Why Windows? [message #74784] |
Tue, 30 March 2004 01:54 |
NHJ BV
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Registered: February 2003
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BTW, I believe you can even install XP on a FAT-partition.
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