What, in a nutshell if possible, is the difference between NTFS4 & NTFS5. Or, where might I find such info. I now have an NT system with an NTFS5 partition, converted silently and secretly by Win2K...Whatever it did it did quickly so I'm wondering just what it did. I understand I'm somewhat screwed now in that I have to go to third party CHKDSK and Defrag that support NTFS5 and hopefully there are no other implications to this. How does Bill Gates, Inc. get away with this crap...? (I understand there's nothing I can do

why not use the checkdisk and defrag programs in Win2k?

not crap ntfs 5 is better..nuff said i can see but you are judging before getting the facts dont like gates ? theres always linux heh heh

I don't see the problem. I boot seperately NT-W2K-XP, all on seperate scsi hard drives external of my tower (raid type boxes). In the tower with the motherboard are three more scsi hard drives that run in common with any operating system I select externally. ALL drives are NTFS, including the internal common units and they were formatted NTFS in NT. All o/p's can read and write to the common drives.

Hmmmm you do not answer the question... He ask "What is the difference between NTFS4 & NTFS5????" yes there is other OS such Linux... and you known what? When they do upgrade, they tell you why they do. And this is exactly what John is trying to know.

True no-one seems to have answered your intial query; and I don't know either... But a searching google using: difference between ntfs4 and ntfs5 as the string will bring up a lot of discussion on the topic. If you find out what is/are the difference/s, perhaps you can post the answer(s) later?