Arny Krueger wrote:
"Bob Cain" wrote in message


Michael A. Terrell wrote:


I've lost track of the hundreds of
times I've reinstalled OS with NTFS after a crash.

The mind boggles. How do you crash the hardware so often?


Good question. NTFS has specific safeguards against this sort of thimg
happening.

I pull the plug (literally) on booted XP systems all the time. They reboot
fine.



Perhaps the write cache is enabled? If it loses power before flushing
the cache, data can be corrupted. NTFS is certainly much more robust
than the earlier MS file systems though, I haven't had much trouble with
it myself.