lucky13
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Posted: July 13 2007,13:30 |
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NTFS: Full backwards compatibility, and it only affects the earlier versions of Windows from being able to access features in the newer versions and not the other way around. I have no problems accessing my NT partitions from XP, but I've had some minor issues accessing XP partitions from NT (though I've not encountered issues I haven't been able to work around).
USB Issue: I don't know what he's done, but I have it a hunch the problem is on the USB side and probably related to not properly unmounting before disconnecting or otherwise not properly shutting down. If that's the case, reinstalling isn't going to fix it.
I don't know why people jump to reinstalling something instead of figuring out what the real problem is and recovering from it. Reinstallation insures data loss, not system recovery. That's why reinstallation should be an absolute last resort. And if he's been reinstalling repeatedly like he said, maybe that's part of the problem -- either he has hardware issues that need to be resolved or he needs to learn how to properly use his software (Windows is a very capable and robust OS regardless of what people want to disparage Microsoft about) to reduce these kinds of issues.
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