Re: hard drive limitations

From: septemberschild (septemberschild_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:33:01 -0700

I have had bad experiences with NTFS, When end users do crazy things and the
system crashes how do you or can you access the drive to pull their files off
of it so you can do a re-install? With FAT32 I can boot with a floppy and
save any important data they need before re-doing the drive. They do not back
up files as they should just like having an antivirus program and not running
it.

"Jim Macklin" wrote:

> 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"
> <septemberschild@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9F606E67-6841-49D3-AB64-AFBE64A4E534@microsoft.com...
> | 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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