MFT Compatibility

KUXJ · #1 Oct 27, 2009, 05:34 AM

PC has been partitioned into two drives.

The one where the OS resides C: is NTFS, but it also has a D: drive that is FAT, where the system restore points are kept.

Is this normal?
Does this cause problems, with this configuration?
Are the restore points compatible when used to restore?
Can you suggest a way to repair?

k

Curlyben · Oct 27, 2009, 06:04 AM

NTFS formatted drives can read FAT happily, so no worries there.
Normally restore points are kept on the appropriate drives, as Seahwk mentioned, so I'm unsure about your reference to the NTFS ones being on the FAT drive.

KUXJ · Oct 27, 2009, 07:20 AM

When I went to use win defrag this is what I saw, sorry 'bout the glare
I explored D:, and that's where I saw the folder for System Restore:

This is my niece's (DW side) PC.

The PC was running slow, and getting slower, it had 256mb Ram, and I had two sticks of 256 (compatible) left from my upgrade, so it has 512 now.
It was when we arrived, I was told PC was very "clunky", DH "upset"

Started back up, and you could notice a slight improvement
Went to defrag, and saw above, after defrag finished, more slight improvement
Installed Glary Utilities, ran 1-click maintenance, found 1433 problems in registry alone, fixed all issues, more slight improvement
Installed Malwarebytes, it found 144 problems in registry, all found in root sector. System locked while finishing scan
Locked so hard, Task Manager would not open on three-finger-salute
PC would not shut off at switch, only way to shut down was to pull plug, niece has done this before
Tried several plug restarts, to finish Malwarebytes scan
Each scan would lock right after finishing root sector scan, and trying to continue
Last attempt at plug restart left me at active desktop, when asked if I wanted to restore Active desktop, and clicking on button, PC would lock
E machine has Comcast Cable, with McAffee protection
When purchased PC was set-up with drives available down to K: , but unusable unless you insert disk What's that all 'bout?
PC has been used for downloading music, and transferring same to cell phones
End of Line

Curlyben · Oct 27, 2009, 07:24 AM

Honestly.
Back up and rebuild.

If you can find more RAM all the better..
You could spend countless hours attempting a fix, when a reinstall of XP would save time and much pulling of hair..

KUXJ · Oct 27, 2009, 07:48 AM

I was leaning that way myself........Now, to tell the DW, and DN.

I hope the DN has all the Disks.

KUXJ · Oct 27, 2009, 09:40 AM

Groundwork already started, DW took it pretty well, but DN a little sad.

Thank You both for your advice.

k

KUXJ · Oct 27, 2009, 12:45 PM

So if I start in safe mode, I can use the D: drive to restore?



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