Capturing with Windows XP

[Stelios]

Hi

I would like your experiences by changing from Windows 98SE to Windows XP. Would it make any difference in Video work and especially in capturing? Iam thinking of upgrading to XP Professional.

Regards
Stelios

[kjmacke]

If your only purpose is surfing and video capture why bother???

[Craig Tucker]

I have just upgraded to XP and now I have got everything set up and working, i prefer it to 98, mainly for the large drive support and ntfs file system. But be ready for some major headaches with driver compatability. If you like tinkering with your pc and are prepared to have it off line for a while and put many hours into setting it up then it is probrably woth it. Was for me anyway. But like i said I spent days setting it up and had to reformat several times, but perhaps I was just unlucky.

Craig

[tom28]

I made a dual boot with win98 and winxp, system is intel 700 slot 1, Bh6 mb, 2 40g and 1 30g hd, 386M pc133 Ram and found XP running rather slow compared to win98SE. Unless I wanted to capture in XP using NTFS else I would rather running with the win98SE since it is faster for my system.

[Eyepop]

Firstly, why don't people just fill in their computer details in their profile so that they don't have to list them all the time in their form msgs.

Anyway, I don't know what you people are talking about tinkering etc. I have Windows XP and a system as listed under the 'computer details'. I found that capturing in XP was much easier than any other OS. Also if you want to capture any significant amout of video you are going to need to be able to create large files which are supported by the NTFS(Win XP) format and not FAT 32(Windows 98). Convienently Win Xp also supports FAT 32 so should you so disire, you may create 2 partitions one FAT32 and another NTFS, which I would recommend strictly for capture purposes.

GL, Hope this was of assistance.

[Stelios]

Hi Eyepop

"Convienently Win Xp also supports FAT 32 so should you so disire, you may create 2 partitions one FAT32 and another NTFS, which I would recommend strictly for capture purposes."

Why can't I have only one partition with NTFS? Where would FAT32 be handy? Is it worth to have FAT32 also?

regards
Stelios

[sonoma]

fat32 drive has a couple of advantages in a w2k/xp system
1. best place for pagefile.sys
2. place to store ghost image of system drive ( I believe ghost only sees fat32 drives to backup to)

[tom28]

Exactly correct, ghost would not see ntfs, so that was what I did was to have ntfs and fat32. Fat32 to store the ghost backup image and NTFS to capture video to. Works well for me.

[Stelios]

Sorry for being ignorant but what is:
"Fat32 to store the ghost backup image"

What is this ghost backup image? Where do you use it?

Stelios

[tom28]

You can format your drive as FAT, FAT32 or NTFS. NTFS is not readable in DOS. Norton Ghost is a utility to backup your drive or partitions. Norton Ghost (the newer version) runs in DOS and only can see FAT or FAT32. Thus when backup the drive, you can only backup the image to a drive that is FAT or FAT32. Norton ghost is great since it can backup NTFS also and backup pretty fast.

[geniv]

os u saying Ghost can backup a NTFS drive but it can only save the backup file to a Fat32 system drive?

sorry if this seems repetive. I"m planning on backing up and dont' want anything to go wrong or f##kup cause I need to resotore it later

thanks

[sonoma]

that is correct. It will backup an ntfs drive to a fat32 disk.

[tom28]

Ghost can backup directly to a CDROM also, saving you time from putting in the HD and restore from HD. It will let you know approx how many CDs you need for the backup. It can also split the image into a specific size, ie 640MB so you can put it on a CD. It can also do integrity check and make sure your backups are error free.