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Conversion of Fat32 to Ntsf
Generally one probably should. The main benefit of FAT32
is backwards compatibility with previous versions of windows, dos, and other operating systems such as linux. This is sometimes especially useful for pretty catastrophic file system problems, but that is rare and hard to do much with even if it does occur. I personally stick with FAT32 because I actually use dos on rare occasions and to install and I also use linux every now and then. NTFS has some advantages though. It's more secure and more efficient with space. So, technically you get more space free if you use NTFS (it's not really THAT much though, I think just a few MB generally.) I think it may even be a little faster. It's also less likely to have those minor annoying curruptions such as the infamous free space bug that fat32 was so good at where you would have supposedly plenty of free space left, but then you discover that you have actually run out. I have never heard of this occuring with NTFS and I would suppose that it can't. Then again, it may be the OS since I haven't had that problem occur to me since I switched to XP even though I'm still using FAT32. So, basically, unless you know what you are doing, you should probably go with NTFS. -----Original Message----- Should i convert the drive Why or why not Benifits or disadvantages to this have a 40 g drive almost full!! Help!!! Please Dave . |
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