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Windows XP Professional in FAT32 acts funny

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Archman

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Hi people,

I've got a laptop that uses Win XP Pro in Fat32 mode, so that drivers will work with it, as the drivers for the sound card do not work in NTFS.

Now, I tried setting up different user accounts, but when Windows boots up, it does not always go to the user login screen, it just loads straight into the Admin account without even asking for a Password.

All the accounts are setup to ask for passwords, but it sometimes does not go to the logon screen... this is a security issue, and I am trying to fix it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks
 
Drivers don't conflict with filesystems, infact they never see the filesystem at all.

Also the filesystem doesn't say anything about the amount of users the system will support, except that FAT doesn't support any permission schemes so everyone will essentially have full control of the system.
 
I believe you could go to the user accounts settings in the control panel, and disable the welcome screen (forcing the old Win2000 style of logging in).
 
Yup user accounts control panel will take care of that.

Be sure that the admin account has a secure password.

Your drivers should work fine on NTFS...they wouldn't know the difference from being run on FAT32.
 
Well here is the funny thing, this laptop only has drivers for Win98 and prior. I figured out how to make the sound work in Win XP, but previously it would not work with the NTFS system, but it would work on FAT32.

It's a twinhead P88TE laptop with 256MB of memory.

 
Originally posted by: Archman
Well here is the funny thing, this laptop only has drivers for Win98 and prior. I figured out how to make the sound work in Win XP, but previously it would not work with the NTFS system, but it would work on FAT32.

It's a twinhead P88TE laptop with 256MB of memory.
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Creative has drivers here that work under Windows XP. Frankly I would never use FAT32 on XP and like others have said the filesystem does not matter.
 
nasfreak... thanks, I already tried that, but just as it states:

"This package is meant for Sound Blaster® Vibra128, Sound Blaster 16 PCI, Sound Blaster PCI 128, Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital, and Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCI"

I downloaded and installed, but it failed because it did not meet the requirements.

I finally figured out how to get them working 😀 It took some pointing to different folders that have the drivers in them I downloaded for Win 98, and changing the sound blaster setting to 'analog' once I installed the drivers 😀

Works beautifully now 😀
 
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