FAT, FAT 32, etc.
Mail Man Bob
What's the best type of file system to use with Win2000? If FAT32 is not that bad, I'll stick with it to avoid the 'learning curve', but is there something out there better?
Thanks!
Bob
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> FAT/FAT32 is the file system used by DOS/Win9x. While
> Win2000/XP can access FAT partitions, its native (and
> preferred) file system is NTFS.
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James
can handle much larger drives it is also not backward compatible to
Win9x versions. There was a similar problem when moving from Fat16 to
Fat32. Win3x would not read the F32 system. If you are running any
older OS's on that machine, including some older Linux flavors, F32
would be a good share format. If you are only running the one OS and
have, or are anticipating, very large drives NT would be a better
choice. Remember also that W2k also has its own drive size limitations
depending on the way you have it setup.
For your thumb drive I would stick with F32 so it will work with a
larger selection of systems.
If you google Fat32, NTFS, very large hard drives, hard drive
partitioning, windows 2000, etc. you will get a wealth of information.
Wikipedia has a great deal of information as well.
For the record I am running W98se, W2kpro & a couple of Linux versions
on various machines and run Fat32 on all. Win95 & 3.1 are lurking on a
couple of machines as well. For sharing you can run NTFS on a W2k+
machine and still share with a W3x, 9x, Linux machine as well since the
local OS is what is reading the local file. I use F32 so drives can be
moved from machine to machine in the event of a mobo failure.
James
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> Thanks, James, that's great info. The problem I have is I'm using basic low-end programs and the usual word, excel, etc. No video, animation, etc. So I'm not sure that it makes any difference to me what the file systems is. Does that sound correct?
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run similar programs with no games, video, music, etc. This is why I am
still running F32 even on the machine I am using as a server. It has
not failed me so I really don't have the inclination to change.
Someday, far into the future at least a few years, I may change but
there will have to be a compelling reason other than general hype. Just
watch for drive size limitations with whatever you are running. By the
end of next year we will likely not be able to find any drives much
under a terabyte and then we will both be in trouble if we have a drive
failure. Until then if it works run it. By then I will likely be 95%
Linux anyway so M$, along with all its hype, will be irrelevant to my needs.
James
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win 98SE files. I did have F32 files on a partitioned 320 GB HD that
remained F32.
then i bought a new HD, WD250 GB. and placed it too off of a Sabrent PCI
Cntrlr
card.
i used WDs Ontrack s/w to fdisk/format it hoping to make that FAT32 as well,
but it would not allow FAT32 past 25 GB and auto changed to NTFS.
i tried to convert it back
convert K: /fs:fat32 /v
didn't work.
before i add any files to this drive, is there anyway to do this as i am
concerned with mixing the 2 types of files on one computer, or copying to
another computer running win 98SE. Or, do i have to worry at all about
that?
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Meinolf Weber
I wrote in the other posting, they can coexist.
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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