[PLUG] that's it..I'm going to windows

Robert Kopp iconoklastic at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 28 10:49:01 UTC 2004


--- Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 22:12, Alan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 16:03, Robert Kopp wrote:
> > > --- Robby Russell <robby at planetargon.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > And, because the registry is NTFS and
> > > cannot be edited by any other OS, some users
> have
> > > resorted to installing multiple copies of XP as
> a
> > > precaution.
> 
> I don't understand what "the registry is NTFS"
> means.
> It sounds like you're saying that the XP Registry is
> now part of the NTFS file system.
> 
You do understand. (That is, you can't get to it from
a non-NTFS installation, if it needs to be altered in
order for XP/NT/2000 to boot.) By the way, this might
not always be true. Linux can read from NTFS, but
write access is still experimental. 

=====
Robert "Tim" Kopp
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