<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:10, "Steve VanSlyck" <s.@spamcop.net> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Rick,<br><br>Didn't you mean "I *can* read this NTFS disk after a reinstall (but *not after* applying service packs)"?</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>No, if I recall the details correctly, a disk formatted NTFS in NT SP3 or later could not be read by by NT until you upgraded to at least SP3.</div><div><br></div><div>I could be remembering wrong, but I spent several hours trying to understand what went wrong and why I could suddenly no longer read the disk & worried that I'd just lost several years of data. Ironically this disk also had the service pack installers on it. The whole point was to do an offline install+patch.<br><br>After I finally got the disk to be read, I did some experimenting and realized Microsoft did something screwy in SP3 to NTFS. Disks formatted *before* installing SP3 were fine - could be read pre and post SP3. Disks formatted on/after SP3 could not be read by a pre-sp3 system. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><span></span><br><span>----- Original Message -----</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>This kind of makes sense considering that NTFS is(?) a closed standard, and that Microsoft has been known to make backwards-incompatible changes to the FS between service packs. I've personally run into this and have spent hours asking myself w.t.f.? I can't read this NTFS disk after a reinstall (but before applying service packs)?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>colug-432 mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>