[access-uk] Re: fat32 or ntfs
- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrisondf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:41:52 +0100
Thanks Andrew and Peter,
Sorry if my original message was not clear. The laptop is a Toshiba and
originally had
a single C: - I do not know whether it was FAT32 or NTFS. The shop asked
whether I
wished it left like that or divided into 2 or more partitions. I chose to have
a smaller C:
for the OS and applications and a larger one for my data. It was only when I
started to
use it that I discovered that C: was FAT32 and D: was NTFS. I would quite
happily
have purchased an external drive which was either FAT 32 or NTFS until I read
the
messages in this thread. Little point in having a backup drive if there is a
possibility of
corruption.
Douglas
On 27 Mar 2005 at 21:51, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> 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.
>
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Douglas Harrison
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