Re: Hey FAT32 users, take advantage of new exFAT file system
- From: "Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:12:53 -0700
Thee Chicago Wolf wrote:
Yes, I don't see why not. It appears to be backwards compatible. Of
course, if you should ever plug an exFAT formatted drive into another
XP computer without the exFAT driver, you'd be hosed. In reality,
you'd be better off converting your FAT32 to NTFS using the convert
command so you won't have to worry about any limitations of the FAT32
or exFAT filesystems. You'd also be better protected against data
corruption. If it's just a storage drive, you shouldn't encounter any
permission issues since it just a storage volume and not your C:
drive.
Seconded. The article was is interesting, but there are too many
potential pitfalls with using it, as you've mentioned.
Maybe, maybe not. It just seems that when FAt32 was introduced way
back in 1996, MS must not have realized that 10+ years later we'd be
dealing with files that were 4GB or bigger and hit the FAT32 ceiling.
It's nice that at least it's getting an update. Even if it it's a bit
post mortem. Still, the FAT32 folks will appreciate it until the rest
of the planet starts getting devices formatted exFAt
It's not going to happen. Anyone dealing with large files (> 4GB) is
already using NTFS (for the partition containing such files), and this
avoids the legacy problems introduced by introducing such a new format that
is not backwards compatible. In short, there is little value to it.
Even if your main C: boot drive is currently using FAT32, you have a couple
of other more sound choices:
1) convert that partition to NTFS (but make a backup first, of course), and
join the rest of the XP world. :-) NTFS has some obvious advantages
here.
I'm not sure how problematic the conversion can be for a boot drive, though.
(better yet, do a fresh install of XP on NTFS, and then reinstall your apps)
OR
2) use another partition formatted as NTFS to store and work with such large
files, say like a partition named "Video". (which I think is principally
where you need to work with such large files)
.
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