Guest santas little helper Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine. Jon
Guest sgopus Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 RE: Adding a larger slave drive, XP It's not just security ie FAT32/NTFS NTFS is more robust and allows for error correcting, better than FAT32, also allows larger file size "santas little helper" wrote: > My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan > to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason > besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine. > > Jon >
Guest smlunatick Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Re: Adding a larger slave drive, XP On Aug 16, 8:46 pm, santas little helper <Ho...@moes.com> wrote: > My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan > to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason > besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine. > > Jon In XP, Microsoft has purposely placed limts on: 1) FAT32 Partition size -- 32GB max. 2) A 4GB file size when saving/copy/creating a file on any FAT32 partition
Guest Tim Slattery Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Re: Adding a larger slave drive, XP smlunatick <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote: >On Aug 16, 8:46 pm, santas little helper <Ho...@moes.com> wrote: >> My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan >> to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason >> besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine. >> >> Jon > >In XP, Microsoft has purposely placed limts on: > >1) FAT32 Partition size -- 32GB max. > >2) A 4GB file size when saving/copy/creating a file on any FAT32 >partition No, not quite. XP cannot create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. It will happily use larger FAT32 partitions created by Partition Manager, the Win98 FDISK utility or whatever. The 4GB limit is part of FAT32, not WinXP. If you're using FAT32 on Win98, WinMe, WinXP, or any other OS (I think Linux can handle FAT32), there's a 4GB file size limit. There's also a limit on entries per directory, which NTFS does not have. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) Slattery_T@bls.gov http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
Guest Lil' Dave Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: Adding a larger slave drive, XP "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message news:b00cc3teck134vkgts83ulfr7t7lh2sfof@4ax.com... > smlunatick <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote: > >>On Aug 16, 8:46 pm, santas little helper <Ho...@moes.com> wrote: >>> My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan >>> to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason >>> besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine. >>> >>> Jon >> >>In XP, Microsoft has purposely placed limts on: >> >>1) FAT32 Partition size -- 32GB max. >> >>2) A 4GB file size when saving/copy/creating a file on any FAT32 >>partition > > No, not quite. XP cannot create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. It > will happily use larger FAT32 partitions created by Partition Manager, > the Win98 FDISK utility or whatever. > > The 4GB limit is part of FAT32, not WinXP. If you're using FAT32 on > Win98, WinMe, WinXP, or any other OS (I think Linux can handle FAT32), > there's a 4GB file size limit. There's also a limit on entries per > directory, which NTFS does not have. > > -- > Tim Slattery > MS MVP(DTS) > Slattery_T@bls.gov > http://members.cox.net/slatteryt There's a wrap using fdisk making FAT32 partitions. This occurs when addressing the partition size after creating the partition and formatting. The original using win98's version of msdos is 64GB. The newer downloadable version is 128GB. Most newer versions of 3rd party software for making partitions don't have this problem with FAT32. Dave
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