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by gillyak

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I purchased a Gateway PC with 1.3 Pentium IV, 40gig hard drive, and 128 Ram, using Windows 2000 Pro.
The computer was shipped using FAT32. I set up the security logs and audit policy to log sucessful and unsuccessful log-ons and object access. The security log in event viewer seemed to work fine. Then I used the "Convert" command to convert to NTFS, and now the security logs only successful attempt, even though the policy is still set up to log both successful & unsuccessful attempts. I tried to reinstall using both upgrade and clean install attempts to correct the problem, with no success.
I purchased a Windows 2000 Professional Disk, made the startup flopies, and reinstalled again from scratch, and once again, the log worked until I converted to NTFS.
Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?
Thanks for any help!
Ron Gillum
gillyak@erols.com

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by stewy

Well if you are willing to re-install then why didn't you wipe the drive and do the NTFS format during installation of win2k? Instead of converting after the install make it an NTFS partition during the install process then change the local policiesto audit succesful and unsucessful logons.

I know i am not providing and answer as to why is is happening but it would be interesting to see if it still happens.

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