Re: FAT32 or NTFS on an external USB disk drive???

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:09:15 -0700, Bruce Chambers
<bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


To answer your questions without getting too technical is
difficult, but has been handled quite well by the late Alex Nichol in
the article here:

FAT & NTFS File Systems in Windows XP
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfs.htm

Thanks, but this is clearly not needed at all. I did mention that I
just bought this 250Gb drive and was now figuring if there are any
advantages at all in keeping FAT32. I usually only have NTFS on my
computers (since 10 years or so)...
So I was not looking for a *conversion*, rather if I should reformat
to NTFS *before* starting to use it...

After reading a few other threads on the NTFS subject I used
ComputerManagement/DiskManagement and formatted the entire disk as
NTFS (with 4k clusters as was recommended in a few posts)
I assume that a fresh format will not introduce the odd boundaries
talked about in the webpage above.

And of course the data I will store are amongst others video files
much larger than 4Gb, so the choice was simple. :=)

Thanks for the comments!


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com
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