Re: jfw Digest V1 #122
- From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:58:48 -0700
It's microsoft who knows. Could be that it is one of those things that's not
guaranteed to work hence the advisory but on certain machines. In free
operating system environments, things work differently or may depending on
hardware, motherboards, sound and video cards, memory etc. Windows hides a lot
of this, sometimes to much like in the case where a chipset or video card won't
work with jaws. The fat vs. ntfs for the authorization disk could be one of
those things. Calling the artument may not be hot are even if you have no
problems with the conversion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "david poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: jfw Digest V1 #122
> There is a high degree of correllation between getting a new system and
> having it not read diskettes that were used and or made on an older system.
> If this is not the corelary, than what do you suppose is the cause of the
> issues that so many have had corrected by having the floppy replaced?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Jackson" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: jfw Digest V1 #122
>
>
> Yes,
>
> I think that business about the format of the floppy is mostly hot air
> because, Unless I'm terribly mistaken I've only had one authorization disk
> for the last 4 years and used it on each system from 98 Se to M E to xp, and
> yes, the xp is formatted in NTFS.
>
> Gary
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Epley" <gregepley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: jfw Digest V1 #122
>
>
> First let me just explain what I found, and then maybe someone can contrast
> that to the information in the below article.
>
> I'm running Windows XP, I have been since I first purchased JAWS 4.0 to run
> on that OS.
>
> I checked my hard drive and authorizations floppy disk formats and found the
> following:
> Local disk C: - NTFS,
> Authorization floppy in A: FAT.
>
> I have JAWS 4.51 also installed as a fallback. It was on the system and
> authorized using the diskette prior to JAWS 5.
>
> AmI missing something in the article below? Because it sounds like my FAT
> diskette shouldn't be working with my NTFS C: drive, and yet it does with no
> problems. Have even used this same diskette to install on other NTFS drives
> with no problems.
> -Greg Epley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Halton" <philhalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: jfw Digest V1 #122
>
>
> > I wrote to the origional poster of this thread off-list, but its probably
> > good information for everybody so here it is again as I learned from FS.
> > The problem is in the file system format. Windows9X and ME systems used
> the
> > FAT or FAT32 file system format. WindowsXP uses the newer NTFS file
> system
> > format. The two aren't compatible, and a jaws auth disk that works for 9x
> &
> > ME systems won't work on XP systems. Anyone migrating or upgrading to XP
> > from 9x or ME will no doubt encounter this problem. The solution is to
> get
> > a auth disk formatted specifically for the XP operating system (which is
> to
> > say, formatted in NTFS format) from FS. Keep your old auth disk though,
> > because if you go back to FAT or FAT32 for some reason, your XP auth disk
> > won't work there just as the FAT disk won't work on XP. If you get
> someone
> > at FS who doesn't know about this-which can happen-tell them you changed
> > operating systems from 9x to XP (or changed file system formats from FAT
> to
> > NTFS more accurately) and just ask them to humor you and issue the new
> auth
> > disk for your operating system file format.
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: "Marie Nelson" <thebkkpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: Authorization key will not install under Windows XP
> > > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:17:54 -0700
> > >
> > > I had this same problem last summer when I purchased a new desktop.
> After
> > > tearing my hair out for a week or more, the solution was that Freedom
> > > Scientific sent me a new authorization disk and it worked just fine.
> Marie
> >
> >
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