Verification needed on error

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Richard Perry

My system administrator has implemented a policy (prior to my arrival) that
all Windows 2000 machines will be installed using the Fat32 file system. On
new Dell systems with 40 GB hard drives, we are creating a single partition,
formatting it Fat32, and then installing Windows 2000 Professional.

Many of these machine are now starting up by doing a file system check even
though they have been shut down properly. Based on the fact that this
definitely comes up if you have improperly shutdown the machine, I am
thinking that this is a bad sign.

Can anyone shed some light on this issue. I want to change these machines to
NTFS. My system administrator does not want to change the file system.
However, I am convinced that switching to NTFS would provide many more
benefits versus staying on Fat32.

I know that there are security benefits to NTFS and all of that. My system
administrator doesn't see a need for these security benefits at this time
however. So, I am looking for performance and stability comparisons. I am
looking for written documentation to prove to him that switching to NTFS
will improve performance, stability, and reduce the number of file system
problems.

If anyone out there can help me with this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Richard
 
Ok, do your own searches on microsoft.com for written documentation...that's
time consuming. But, I'll say that the property of NTFS that makes it more
stable is the transactional nature of the file system. That's your keyword
when searching through all the marketing crap you'll find.

BTW, if you never let checkdisk finish, it'll never clear the dirty shutdown
bit and will always run on startup.
 
If anyone out there can help me with this, I would greatly appreciate it.
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What is your system administrator's name and address? I will require
$5,000 when the task is accomplished.

*sharpens knives*
 
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