Re: FAT32 or NTSF

From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:17:49 -0500

On Sat, 22 May 2004 23:13:04 GMT, "R. McCarty"
<PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote:

There are certainly good reasons for using NTFS over FAT-32. But I
have found that the majority of new users who do have problems with
systems that are formatted to NTFS wind up re-installing or
re-formatting.

I have to agree with Plato (ugh, I hate to say I agree with him on
anything). Recovering from FAT-32 is far easier than NTFS. As for
journaling and committing the changes to disk, a mucked up MFT is far
worse than a mucked up FAT table. Been there before.

>Your example omitted an important aspect of NTFS.
>
>Say your daughter has worked on a school Word doc
>for 5 hours (Auto-Save is turned off). The system as
>you say crashes. With Fat32, there is no journaling on
>the drive - all changes are lost. However, if that same
>event occurs using NTFS, then chances are good the
>changes can be committed to disk.
> Which is worse, the difficulty in accessing NTFS from
>a Dos level -or- Loosing hours of work by using a non
>journaling file system ?
>
>
>"John R Weiss" <jrweiss98155@.comNOSPAMcast.net> wrote in message
>news:OYRg4DFQEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote...
>> > Let's entertain a counter opinion:
>> >
>> > It's 9:00 PM and Mr. Customer calls and says his daughter has spent days
>> > working on a
>> > project for school in Word and his XP in NTFS has suddenly crashed. She
>> > needs the project printed out for tomorrow.
>> >
>> > What are your options to get the data back asap? Use a bootdisk? No, it
>> > wont see NTFS so you wont be able copy the .doc to it. What if there is
>> > no A: drive and you use a bootable win9x dos cd? OK, but you still wont
>> > see NTFS
>>
>> If you have the XP install disk, boot from CD.
>>
>>
>

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