[access-uk] Re: fat32 or ntfs
- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:51:35 +0100
Hi Douglas,
OEMs tend to give customers the choice of either FAT32 or NTFS because
they format the drive as FAT32, if the customer wants NTFS they can
convert it to NTFS using the conversion tools available with Windows (a
shortcut is usually provided somewhere on the desktop to do this so
people know its running a non-NTFS filesystem). Interesting though with
the second partition - what make is that laptop? This was the thing
though - I have seen plenty of times where multiple file systems are
used, for example in a duel boot system whereby some partitions are
FAT32 so older operating systems can read them whilst Windows XP can
also read them - never have I seen disk curruption due to different
systems on the drive.
I still hold by my NTFS on internal drives and FAT32 on portible drives
unless the portible drive is very large or it has been pre-formatted to
NTFS and you know you only want to use it on XP based systems or systems
running Windows 2000.
Thanks.
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Douglas Harrison
Sent: 27 March 2005 21:11
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: fat32 or ntfs
Andrew,
I have been following this thread with some interest because I am
considering getting an external HD to use to backup important material
from my lap top. My current method of using CDs is time consuming and
does not get done as often as it should.
However when I got my laptop I was surprised to find that they had
formatted my C partition as Fat 32 and D (on which I store all my data)
as NTFS. Do you think that it matters in my case how the external drive
is formatted - FAt32 or NTFS. The possibility of loss of data would
rather defeat the object of the backup.
Douglas
On 27 Mar 2005 at 20:28, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a weird one since I have many drives on different file systems
> all over the place and have never had a problem. NTFS is slightly
> more tricky to recover from on a disk crash, especially on a portible
> drive, whereas I want my primary internal disks to be running with
> NTFS. There is also not much advantage in NTFS for smaller drives,
> especially the flash media -
> FAT32 starts becoming really inefficient over 10GB. I also do repairs
> on older machines running Windows 98, and (shudder) even Windows 95,
> Windows
> 98 can readFAT32 but not NTFS.
>
> I will look into this a bit as I want to see if there is any opinion
> on it, and Maxtor's reasoning behind the statement made in the user
guide.
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
>
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Douglas Harrison
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