[Gllug] Reply to Xander

[Xander D Harkness]

Whoops - sorry.

I must have the thorns around me through being surrounded by so many 
windowsheads.

no excuses - just got a bit carried away  and ended up preaching to the 
converted :-)

Cheers
Xander

Formi wrote:
> 
> 
>  Have you read my reply to John Clement ? Please enlighten yourself.
> 
>  I do have NT only for fun, as I said its been lying there for three months,  
>  broken, I don't use it for much, and never to browse the internet even behind
>  my linux firewall, I pretty happy with linux in my two machines and
>  one day I will try to get a job as a linux admin.
> 
>  I spread the word of linux, and right now I am trying to set it up in the    
>  charity I volunteer for. 
> 
>  So please next time don't be so fast.  You don't have to convince me.
> 
>  Cheers, 
> 
>                                   Formi.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 31 July 2001 13:50, you wrote:
> 
>>You are are a nutter to run such stuff - find another solution - there
>>will be one.  I am running Linux in a full M$ shop and after eight
>>months all of the w2k techies have now tried Linux.  I had to fight for
>>my Linux desktop, it was worth it.
>>
>>Linux came in the back door and management are now seeing that I running
>>  in excess of 40 servers by myself have not had one fall over, while 8
>>M$ techies only crashed 2 of their 58 servers yesterday.  Oh and virii
>>yep I love receiving those.
>>
>>Linux is a better fix for the data, in addition you get to back it up
>>before doing anything further :-)
>>
>>Otherwise compile a kernel with NTFS support, copy the data off.  I will
>>be surprised if Linux does not see it.  (I solved similar problems here
>>for the windowsheads on w2k)  Then format the drive, don't forget about
>>the 2GB limitation on their crappy OS and copy the data back before
>>re-install.
>>
>>Here's hoping you junk the windows gumph :-)
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Xander
>>
>>Formi wrote:
>>
>>> Question,
>>>
>>> I need to fix a couple of NTFS partitions, before reinstalling NT, it's
>>>been broken for 3 months.
>>>
>>>  The problem is that the installer doesn't recognise the partitions as
>>>ntfs any more, and I don't want to lose some settings.
>>>
>>> Is there any program like chkdsk or scandisk for ntfs running under DOS
>>>???
>>>
>>> Just thought I could ask before using fdisk..
>>>
>>> Formi.
>>>
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