NT 4 VS NTFS PARTITION
E.Franklin
and NTFS partition. Would like to a online course and one requirement
is to have a NTFS partition.
Thanks in advance.
Jan Johansson
apples and pears.
E.Franklin wrote in message <36D49666...@worldnet.att.net>...
Floatmind
NT with Fat16 (not32) partitions but if you don't need them for compability
don't bother.
/Seb
Lucius Chiaraviglio
>An NTFS *is* a Windows NT 4.0 Native filesystem partition. You can also run
>NT with Fat16 (not32) partitions but if you don't need them for compability
>don't bother.
Actually, compatibility is a reason to keep FAT16 more often
than you might think. Sooner or later, Windows NT will fry itself, or
you will need to do a clean boot to do a virus check, and you will be
glad for the ability to boot from a DOS (or Windows 9x) diskette and
do this to fix your system partition (and any other partitions
containing code loaded at boot or logon).
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"Floatmind" <floa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>An NTFS *is* a Windows NT 4.0 Native filesystem partition. You can also run
>NT with Fat16 (not32) partitions but if you don't need them for compability
>don't bother.
Actually, compatibility is a reason to keep FAT16 more often
than you might think. Sooner or later, Windows NT will fry itself, or
you will need to do a clean boot to do a virus check, and you will be
glad for the ability to boot from a DOS (or Windows 9x) diskette and
do this to fix your system partition (and any other partitions
containing code loaded at boot or logon).
Lucius Chiaraviglio | luci...@ibm.net
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My user name actually doesn't have an addition symbol in it (but it
does have a numeral '1').
Pete
with ntfs so it has better security cuz you can control the files being
used intsead of just directories....But fat and fat 32 wont see NTFS so
there are trade offs...
Roger A Krupski
Well, I both agree and disagree with you. Most people install NT the
"normal" way and either convert to NTFS later or they specify "format
the drive as NTFS" during install. Both of these operations create
NTFS drives with 512 byte clusters, no matter how large the hard drive
is. Managing so many clusters causes NTFS to be slower than FAT-16 and
makes fragmentation a big problem.
However, if you format a drive using NT's FORMAT command, it will
create the proper size clusters for the drive size (usually 4096
bytes or 8 sectors per cluster). If a drive is setup in this manner,
it will be as fast (or faster) than a FAT drive.
Of course, the question is "how do I use NT's FORMAT command before
NT is installed"? Well, the best way is to install a scratch, bare
bones copy of NT on a different drive. Then, use FORMAT to properly
format the drive you actually want to use. Finally, install NT on
the formatted drive and choose "leave current filesystem intact".
The NT FORMAT command allows you to specify different cluster sizes.
Be aware that NTFS compression CANNOT be used with drives that have
larger than 4096 byte clusters. If you will never need compression,
you MAY get better performance by specifying 16K or 32K clusters
(of course at the expense of slack space waste).
Lastly, using NTFS compression WILL slow down the computer a lot and
should not be used except for seldom accessed data (like archives).
Roger
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