Re: what's the story with the FAT32, 32GB limit ?
- From: "jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:07:36 -0700
On Aug 14, 11:49 pm, "Paul Randall" <paulr...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
i 've heard that when running an OS , or some OSs, like win xp, from
that partition, there can be problems if the capacity is > 32GB
I never ran into any problems, but I went to NTFS anyway.
But what are the problems, and why ?
Or is there reason to believe there are no problems, and it's a myth ?
Note: if no OS is on there, e.g. it's just for data, then i don't
think the 32GB thing is an issue.
i think win xp or an early edition of it didn't let you format a fat32
partition > 32GB or something. I recall a mueller video showing him
resizing it with Partition Magic.
(next, the 137gb limit ;-) ! )
Up until I started using Vista, I have avoided NTFS. My 300 GB drives work
just fine formatted FAT32. I partition/format with GDisk.exe, a DOS program
provided with Norton Ghost. W98 DOS accesses these files just fine.
Norton's DOS Disk Edit can play with the contents (master boot record,
partition table, directory, individual file contents, or any sector of my
choice) just the way I want it to. The applications that I use that handle
large files automatically split files so that none has to exceed 2GB. NTFS
is a black box which I know I will have to learn to trust. I'm not quite
there yet.
You can access NTFS from DOS too, there are programs like NTFS Pro.
It's not a GUI shell. It's more like a TSR program, and you wouldn't
know it's there, and you can access all your drives. It does the job
properly.
I recall that it didn't let me do a virus check on an NTFS drive from
DOS though! maybe that used too much RAM or more memory than NTFS Pro
was banking on! But it's very good. There may be other free ones (that
can read and write).
Another great alternative, and why many people don't even use that
program anymore. Is Win XP PE. booting a rubbishy version of win xp
off a CD. (win xp has no prob reading NTFS).
Maybe a linux boot disk can do it too.
All these options are easier than putting the drive in another machine
that runs win xp or an OS that sees NTFS.
Regarding Norton DOS Disk edit. I kow I guess it lets you read/write
at the byte level, and sounds very cool. But what have/can you use it
for ?
e.g. what have you done playing with partitions ? the boot record ?
files ? at that level..
What 137 GB limit?
Win xp pre sp1 didn't let you create a partition or format, to more
than 137GB. So you had to resize it with a prog like partition magic.
.
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