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| Thread ID: 80468 | 2007-06-24 09:59:00 | Convert to NTFS? | heni72847 (1166) | Press F1 |
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| 562402 | 2007-06-24 09:59:00 | such a weird question to ask in 2007..but recently used the recovery function on a notebook and ... the system was restored to this: C: holding system 20Gb D: for data 20Gb and..both in fat32 because of the smallish partition size is it still worth it to convert to ntfs? I don't care about security and compression or 4Gb limit I'm most concerned about performance would a partition this small still benefit by nfts? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 562403 | 2007-06-24 11:11:00 | well not really i think.....but hey, my hard drive 80GB, of course it is better off on NTFS this hard drive i got used to be on FAT32 operation, running windows xp was not stable at all, easily crashed but after i have converted to NTFS, it is very good n faster too..... |
jackyht2002 (6606) | ||
| 562404 | 2007-06-24 11:12:00 | If it isn't broken, why fix it? I personally found that with an older system, it was faster to leave it in FAT32. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 562405 | 2007-06-24 11:58:00 | okay then..might just leave it the funny thing was how it's running xp but recovers to a fat32 partition.. thought m$ told prebuilt system builders to go with ntfs also..after reading a bit I came across how ntfs stores filename with unicode so does it mean only with fat32 filenames can't contain character from foreign languages? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 562406 | 2007-06-24 16:21:00 | I didn't know that once you were in NTFS you COULD return to FAT anything...! I've been told repeatedly that once you're set into the NTFS condition, only a format and re-install could go to FAT, FAT16 or FAT32....as of course, you'd then rewrite everything and it wouldn't matter anyway. Any comments from experts? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 562407 | 2007-06-24 21:48:00 | no don't think you can go from ntfs to fat I was thinking about converting fat32 to nfts and that's doable |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 562408 | 2007-06-24 21:50:00 | I think u can convert back to FAT32 but you'll need a 3rd party program. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 562409 | 2007-06-25 11:34:00 | IMO why would you want to run a modern OS on a Windows 9x file system? NTFS has security and journaling to provide robustness that is not there in FAT32. | johnd (85) | ||
| 562410 | 2007-06-26 10:22:00 | You can definitely convert any partition type to any other type using Partition Magic without losing any data. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 562411 | 2007-06-26 10:29:00 | IMO why would you want to run a modern OS on a Windows 9x file system? Because you might want to access it from DOS . Like I do . |
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