Disklavier

Greetings Carol,

Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 4:31:49 PM, you wrote:

How can you tell how your XP system is CB> formatted?

If you installed xp on a new machine it is probably NTFS.

You can have several partitions and some can be NTFS and others FAT or
FAT32. You can see what any of them are by right mouse clicking on the
icon for the drive letter of the partition of interest in my computer
or the windows explorer. Choose properties and the window that pops up
will include the file the file system.

If the problem is inability to write to an NTFS partition, all that
might be needed is to create a partition that is FAT. It is easiest to
do this with Partition Magic. You can even pick up an older version
for almost nothing on e-bay. I paid $15 or less for version 7 but it
does not do the fancy after the fact multi boot stuff that I wanted so
I had to buy version 8 too.

You can probably run the program from the NTFS partition but may need
to put the data files on the FAT partition.

By the way, there are all sorts of other possible reasons that a
program would not run under xp. One thing that might help is running
the program in a compatibility mode such as that for win 98 but there
is still no guarantee.  This is easy to try. Just right click the
program and choose properties and then the page for compatibility and
check the box to use a compatibility mode and choose one. Still might
not work if the program is trying to do things that are just not
allowed in NT and other reasons too.

In spite of all of this, I have virtually no programs that do not run
under xp with lots of time spent configuring and working around
issues. Some work marginally so I use the dual boot system when I need
it.



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