Re: hard drive limitations

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:02:12 -0500

Because FAT32 is not stable and NTFS is much more suitable
for large drives, neither large hard drives nor NTFS existed
when FDISK was written.

Unless you are in need of FAT because you are dual booting
an obsolete OS or have some system that does not yet support
NTFS, there is no reason not to use NTFS. Even Linux is
working on NTFS support. 

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<septemberschild@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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| oh please please mighty Microsoft, find a way to remove 
the limitations that
| cause this: Why when inside of Disk Management are you 
able to fdisk a drive,
| partition
| it and then when you go to format it your only option is 
NTFS? Then if you go
| to the Command Window and type "format D: /fs:fat32" it 
will check the disk
| for errors which takes a long time on a 100gig HD and 
returns an error
| message that states "Disk is too large for FAT32"? But yet 
you can boot with
| a Win98 boot disk, run FDISK, re-partition, reboot then 
format the disk with
| no problem? Why is there a limitation inside of XP? Both 
from Disk Manager
| inside of Admin Tools and from the DOS window?
|

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