Guest Dave Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? Thanks,
Guest Don Phillipson Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: FAT32 Question "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BFD02EB8-EEFD-478B-A953-C4AB21741219@microsoft.com... > Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? FAT32 is reputed less stable than NTFS (which Win98 cannot read.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
Guest Jeff Richards Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: FAT32 Question http://www.project9.com/fat32/ under compatibility. There is no simple way to convert back from FAT32 to FAT. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BFD02EB8-EEFD-478B-A953-C4AB21741219@microsoft.com... > > Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? > > > Thanks,
Guest Bill in Co. Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: FAT32 Question Why would anybody want to convert from FAT32 to FAT16? Jeff Richards wrote: > http://www.project9.com/fat32/ under compatibility. There is no simple way > to convert back from FAT32 to FAT. > -- > Jeff Richards > MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) > "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:BFD02EB8-EEFD-478B-A953-C4AB21741219@microsoft.com... >> >> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? >> >> >> Thanks,
Guest Jeff Richards Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: FAT32 Question If it turns out that there are any compatibility issues such as the ones listed under compatibility at the site I mentioned. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:OGD0fCmJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Why would anybody want to convert from FAT32 to FAT16? > > Jeff Richards wrote: >> http://www.project9.com/fat32/ under compatibility. There is no simple >> way >> to convert back from FAT32 to FAT.
Guest philo Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Re: FAT32 Question "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BFD02EB8-EEFD-478B-A953-C4AB21741219@microsoft.com... > > Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? > > > Thanks, If you have win98 installed on a fat16 partition and your harddrive is 2 gigs or less, I'd just leave it.... but converting to fat32 should be fine. However if your drive is larger than 2 gigs and you want to make larger partitions, then yes, I'd advise using fat32 or course you'd have to start over from scratch or use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic. Either way, back up your data first!
Guest Dan Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Re: FAT32 Question I thought FAT32 just had less native security than NTFS and not less stability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS "Don Phillipson" wrote: > "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:BFD02EB8-EEFD-478B-A953-C4AB21741219@microsoft.com... > > > Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? > > FAT32 is reputed less stable than NTFS (which > Win98 cannot read.) > > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) > > >
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