Fat32 to NTFS on XP Home = Freeze

by hagsfam Aug 6, 2004 7:10AM PDT

Good day all,

Some folks said to convert my system, and I did from FAT32 to NTFS. All was well for a few days... then XP would start to boot with the black screen, but the green bar below would do about 3-5 laps then freeze. I tried safe mode and last good, no luck.

SO, I formatted the C drive, good bye all programs and left my C in FAT32, but was able to keep NTFS for my D,E drives..

After a few more weeks, as luck would have it, I am back to XP Home freezing. I read the other POST article from "Frustrated". Is this the same type of problem??

I am able to use an old hard drive an load Windows ME and run fine, but do not want to lose the data in NTFS on my other HD.

XP Home
Athlon XP1700+
3x256 DDR RAm
Shuttle AK31
ATI Radeon 7000
USR internal PCI Modem
WD 60 GB 7200rpm HD

Thanks for your help!

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Re: Fat32 to NTFS on XP Home = Freeze

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 6, 2004 9:37AM PDT

As a test, try this.

Just 512M of RAM and leave the case cover off.

Better? Same?

What is the power supply WATTS on this one?

Bob

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Re: Fat32 to NTFS on XP Home = Freeze

by hagsfam Aug 6, 2004 11:29AM PDT

Bob,

On the road, so I will try this when I get home. Thanks for the quick answer.

At least 300w, I will check when I get home.

Pat

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Re: Fat32 to NTFS on XP Home = Freeze

by hagsfam Aug 6, 2004 11:59AM PDT

Bob,

Also bought a new Western Digital hard drive. If I understand correctly I should take most excess PCI boards off to help ease the install. Then change the CMOS?Bios? to boot from CD and XP will install to it from the CD directly? Should I use the WD Lifeguard disk? Should I format it first as a slave then swap to install XP?

I did try having the case off earlier, no change...I might also buy a new fan, those hard drives get warm...maybe XP is smarter than ME about temps??

Pat

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With 300 Watt power supply. No spare Watts.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 6, 2004 1:46PM PDT

I'd expect such to maybe work, but as time went on and the PSU does its normal aging, the owner will wonder why its rebooting, freezing and wiping out. Here's some light reading on the matter.

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040122/
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20021021/

300 is on the very low side, suitable for single hard disk, single CDROM, no 3D card, etc.

Bob

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Re: Fat32 to NTFS on XP Home = Freeze

by hagsfam Aug 28, 2004 12:56AM PDT

Bob,
Finally closing the loop on this. I did a lot of mentioned fixes in various posts here.
New hard drive
Installed XP Home with many cards out and only 512 ram
everything was working fine.. UNTIL

I installed software called MICROSOFT GREETINGS 99

This was the culprit all along, just took me awhile to figure it out. My guess is that if ran fine with XP and FAT32, that was what it expected to see as a file structure when the software was produced. With NTFS it must have tried to change the registry or something which caused many problems with XP startup...

So I threw the software out and installed SP2 and my machine is working again...

You just never know. Thanks to all!!
Pat

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Your email address is being harvested.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 10, 2004 3:16AM PDT

You may not know that these PUBLIC forums are crawled over by Google and other harvesting programs. Upon your request I can delete your email address in the clear post.

Unless you love more spam?

Bob

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Re: Your email address is being harvested.

by mltom Aug 10, 2004 4:35AM PDT

How does one block the harvesties from using one's e-mail address?

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Re: Your email address is being harvested.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 10, 2004 5:45AM PDT

Don't put it in public forums.

Bob

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Re: Your email address is being harvested.

by hagsfam Aug 13, 2004 8:46AM PDT

Bob,
Thanks for the heads up, sure clear my email so others wont spam me!

Pat

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