Ntfs file system??

[Bare]

Having to 'convert' to this files system from Fat32 to
accomodate my New 80gb Harddrive.. will ALL my
programs/Games still work after thge Conversion??

[Thorsten Matzner]

"Bare" > wrote:

>Having to 'convert' to this files system from Fat32 to
>accomodate my New 80gb Harddrive.. will ALL my
>programs/Games still work after thge Conversion??

They should work, because Windows is the link between the file system
and your applications.

--
(tm)

[Ken Blake]

"Bare" > wrote in message
...

> Having to 'convert' to this files system from Fat32 to
> accomodate my New 80gb Harddrive.. will ALL my
> programs/Games still work after thge Conversion??


The only ones not likely to work properly are older disk
utilities that are not NTFS-aware.

By the way, you don't *have to* use NTFS (although I recommend
that you do). Although Windows XP can't *create a FAT32 partition
larger than 32GB. it will happily use one if you first create one
externally, for example with FDisk from Windows Me. Again, I
recommend using NTFS, but you *do* have a choice.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

[David]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:20:42 -0700, "Bare" >
wrote:

>Having to 'convert' to this files system from Fat32 to
>accomodate my New 80gb Harddrive.. will ALL my
>programs/Games still work after thge Conversion??

Programs don't care what file system they are stored on.



Stupdity should hurt..

David

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

There are quite a number of games that don't work for limited accounts
under XP NTFS because they write to forbidden areas like Program Files
and HKLM in the registry.

If you convert to NTFS, you may not be able to run some games using
limited accounts without adding modify privilege to that game's Program
Files and perhaps HKLM registry keys. This is the fault of the vendors
who write the installers and executables.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows

Are you hurting?

"David" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:20:42 -0700, "Bare" >
> wrote:
>
> >Having to 'convert' to this files system from Fat32 to
> >accomodate my New 80gb Harddrive.. will ALL my
> >programs/Games still work after thge Conversion??
>
> Programs don't care what file system they are stored on.
>
>
>
> Stupdity should hurt..
>
> David