old programs and windows xp

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Jake Kalyta

old programs and windows xp

Legg inn av Jake Kalyta » 24 des 2004 15:06:46

I installed an old genealogy program after upgrading to windows xp and it
wouldn't load.
The problem seems to be not with windows xp but rather the NTFS file system
it uses (needed for large hard drives). I partitioned a small portion of my
drive and assigned it a drive letter and use fat 32 file system and the
program works when installed in this environment. Files must be saved in
this drive to be usable. I also installed a photo imaging program, that used
to refuse to work with windows xp, in this environment and now it too is
usable.You do not need a seperate operating system as I was once using.

Doug

Re: old programs and windows xp

Legg inn av Doug » 24 des 2004 19:41:06

Jake Kalyta wrote:
I installed an old genealogy program after upgrading to windows xp and it
wouldn't load.
The problem seems to be not with windows xp but rather the NTFS file system
it uses (needed for large hard drives). I partitioned a small portion of my
drive and assigned it a drive letter and use fat 32 file system and the
program works when installed in this environment. Files must be saved in
this drive to be usable. I also installed a photo imaging program, that used
to refuse to work with windows xp, in this environment and now it too is
usable.You do not need a seperate operating system as I was once using.


A bit odd, considering that accessing the file system (read or write) is

a function of the operating system. Although making sense out of what is
in a data file might be a bit iffy without a program designed to read
files generated by whatever program wrote them. The point is, how a file
is stored is irrelevant. For a program to execute, it must be designed
execute under the operating system (and processor) being used. For
instance, the MAC filing system would be unreadable under a Microsoft OS
(i.e., DOS, Windows), but Microsoft OS generated files, sent to a MAC
via e-mail, can be read perfectly after having been stored to the MAC
filing system under the MAC OS. Furthermore, add the Windows emulator
under the MAC OS and PC programs will run fine after having been stored
under the MAC filing system.

It sounds to me that more likely would be either an NTFS "permissions"
problem; i.e., somehow you don't have the proper permissions set to
access the files; or a "compatibility" problem (discussed later). Since
the FAT-16/32 systems have no such restrictions; i.e., you can't set
permissions on a FAT partition under XP (or NT or Win2K), only
password-based sharing can be implemented. The second possibility is
that the old program (how old you didn't say) actually won't run under
XP. However, XP has a "compatability" mode that allows you to specify
the Microsoft OS on which the program is intended to run; i.e., Win95,
98, Me, NT4, or 2000). If not already tried, this might be the best
first step.

Hopefully you will be able to glean something useful from the above blather.

Doug

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