[H-GEN] Mounting Windows XP?

[Rick Phillips]

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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Mounting Windows XP?


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On Friday 05 April 2002 09:54, you wrote:
>
> whereas version 7 does not.  This is what has lead us to believe that
there
> are now 2 "flavours" of NTFS.  We also tried getting Mandrake 8.1 to read

>>>Actually, NTFS varies between NT4 and Win2k, so if there is a difference
>>>between the 2k and XP versions of NTFS, there are now 3 (at least)
"flavours".

I tend to forget about NT as it is now "officially" dead ;>) and nowhere to
be found for the average user.

>
> Get yourself into Win 2000 if you must and forget XP for the time being.
> We have uninstalled a lot of XP and replaced it with Win2000.  Win2000 is
> mature - XP is not.

>>>Agree with most of this.  Some of our customers are purchasing new
machines
>>>with XP preinstalled and are getting a little annoyed when they have to
go
>>>back to their suppliers and get Win2k installed.  In some cases, this is
even
>>>after we advised them that we only support the NT4 & 2000 versions of
>>>Windows.

>>>Don't let anyone tell you "if it runs on Win2k, it will run on XP".  This
may
>>>be true in some cases, but it is certainly not true in all cases.

We try to warn people about XP and the problems but the MS hype is
compelling.- we now install Win2000 "standard" - the rest by request.
We also now install Mandrake on a small partition in a lot of cases -
hopefully to get people aware.  Probably a losing battle but we will keep
trying.

Rick

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