Re: File System
- From: "sssome" <e2403@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:27:16 -0800
see Dave Patrick item above on Defrag
i loaded 2000 over 98 SE and had a few things not work, and i kept FAT32 on
the C drive and NT on data 250GB+ HDs.
Then i made the C: drive NT and more things worked. like formatting in WDs
Lifeguard s/w - all such problems solved.
i can see that holding onto FAT32 and win 98 just won't work with new h/w
and s/w.
i'll probably try Ubuntu Linux on my old 2nd computer. i am fighting XP,
and esp Vista.
i still am not sure which of the Task Mgr, Processes are needed in 2000 and
am never sure if i should allow some requests thru Zone Alarm as they are
diff from 98 SE.
ssome
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e moss
Seattle, USA
"James" <JT@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47CDED68.4020701@xxxxxxxxxxx
Remember that NTFS cannot be read by W98 or earlier. I have a number of
drives on a W98se system using a daughter board for the larger drives
and have partitions up to 200gb on those drives formatted in FAT32. A
friend recently lost access to his files on his NTFS partitions using
XPpro in an unusual manner. Drive properties indicate most of the space
used but when he looks for his files they do not appear in Windows
Explorer and when he tries typing is the filename address of a .jpg file
he knows was there it cannot be found. In another group a user
indicated a similar problem. Very isolated but I have not seen any
reports of this nature with FAT32. Drives have not indicated small free
space with no files present. Perhaps someone else has seen similar
drive errors. NTFS definitely uses the drive space more efficiently but
due to OS limitations vs the more universal access to FAT32 I stay with
FAT32. Everyone has their own reasons.
James
ssome wrote:
thanks, Meinolf
<Meinolf Weber> wrote in message
news:ff16fb665d9ca8c9d541bc3169f7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello ssome,confers
FAT32 and NTFS can coexist without any problem.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
no rights.
I chose to keep my files FAT32 when i loaded in win 2000 over the
existing
win 98SE files.
then i bought a new HD, WD250 GB. and placed it off of a Sabrent
Cntrlr
card.
i used WD Ontrack s/w to fdisk/format it hoping to make that FAT32 as
well,
but it would not allow FAT32 past 25 MB and auto changed to NTFS.
i tried to convert it back
convert K: /fs:fat32 /v
didn't work.
before i add any files to this drive, is there anyway to do this as i
am
concerned with mixing the 2 types of files on one computer.
comments?
ssome
Seattle
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