What are the differences between NTFS with Windows 2000 and XP?

[Rob G.]

I know that both XP and 2000 use NTFS5, but exactly what are the differences between them? I know there must be something relatively important because Ghost 2001 doesn't support XP.

Any info or links would be appreciated.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i dont mean for a lame response, as this is just speculation, but i think what it means is that you can't install ghost on XP, but you can boot from the floppy and make/restore images. as far as i know, XP uses the same version of NTFS as 2k, NT4-->2K is where the change happened.

 

[RalfHutter]

Here's the answer, straight from the horse's mouth.

 

[jhites]

I believe there are more underlying differences between the two. While attending a WindowsXP event, I spoke to one of the intel reps and he also stated that there were some code changes in XP vs 2K. I did load Ghost 2001 on my XP pro without any "not compatible errors" but I was not able to get ghost to run a backup. I am not sure if it is because of the Raid0 setup or XP compatability.

I have SystemWorks 2002 Pro ordered and will be reloading XP next week, so I will post if it works. I am also going to try the wpa copy and paste to System32 directory to see if it works for bypassing registration again.

 

[Nothinman]

It's either Symantec making bad assumptions with NTFS 5 in Win2K that don't work in XP (they moved some stuff to different locations on disk), which is a mistake on Symantec's part, or MS changed things they're not mentioning, which is something they like to do a lot especially since the Linux NTFS guys are making a lot of progress reverse engineering it lately.

 

[Rob G.]

Thanks for the replies.

I'll clarify further...

I've had 98, 2000 Pro, XP and two versions of Linux on the same box for some time. I'm trying to get rid of XP and decided to do a bit of rearranging of the partitions at the same time.

Ghost 2001 does not support the XP implementation of NTFS. I found that out a while ago and spat blood at Symantec for including a retarded twelve-character licence key prompt in the new version. Assholes! Anyway, it seems that once XP has been present on the system, even when it's removed the changes to the various NTFS partitons remain. What this means is that I now have no way of being able to use Ghost 2001 (which doesn't have said retarded key prompt) unless I reinstall Windows 2000.

I've tried going back to a pre-XP Ghost image but XP seems to have done something to the system because 2K will not boot when that image is restored. To make matters worse, I've tried getting the system back to how it was before removing XP (I Ghost everything before a major change) and 2K still gets chuffed up.

Looks like I'm going to have reinstall 2K. Great. Thanks XP.

 

[Nothinman]

You are correct that Windows "upgrades" all your NTFS drives to whatever version it uses. It's really funny because if you try to dualboot NT 4 pre-SP 4 and Win2K or XP you'll lose NT 4 because 2K/XP will make changes to your NT 4 NTFS filesystem that makes NT 4 not boot.