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by **Uncle Feste** » Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:33:34

> How did you format and partition them, though?

Both are FAT32. Used the Maxtor tools disk that come with the drive.
Didn't try fdisk. Does that have a problem with the large partitions?
I wouldn't think so, but I've never tried it.

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by **Uncle Feste** » Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:36:59

> Not much hassles to NTFS. Just format it and that's it. Don't need to use
> all the features if you don't need too.

Actually I was referring to hassles some games give you with NTFS. GPL
& indexing, many have reported problems with The Sims, etc. And if it's
gonna be a ***-only machine, FAT32 may give him one less headache.

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by **Jone Tytlandsvi** » Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:05:36

I don't know but you can xcopy the files. "xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* \e \h" or
something like that. But you can't do it from the partition you boot from,
so you got to have dual boot.
It won't be the same as a fresh install as there was no
restrictions/ownership on files and directories on the FAT32 drive, and I
can't see how XP could be able to recreate these. This might not be a
problem though.
It's also possible to convert a FAT32 drive to NTFS, but it might be a bad
idea. I think the problems some people get with GPL and NTFS is on converted
drives or drives upgraded from Win98.

I have just xcopied my two XP partitions to a new drive, so if you get in
trouble, I might be able to help you. It was not straight forward for me
because there was files I could not access. I don't think this would be a
problem with FAT32.

BTW: Isn't it amusing that Microsoft spellchecker doesn't recognize the
words FAT32 and NTFS?

Jone.

by **CFste** » Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:38:52

I have a 60GB drive that's a single partition with XP installed. I FDISKed
with a bootdisk before I installed XP - no problem...

CFster

by **Uwe Schuerkam** » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:56

> I like NTFS for its smaller cluster size. Granted with today's larger hard
> drives its not as big of an issue as it use to be. If you don't have a
> second computer that will read NTFS I'd stick with Fat 32 so you can reclaim
> your data incase of a system failure.

> MadDAWG

if you plan to run Linux alongside your "other" OS then FAT32
is the way to go. There is support for read access to NTFS
within Linux, but I am not sure about write access.

Cheers,

uwe

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rec.autos.simulators

Kinda OT.. fat32 or NTFS

Kinda OT.. fat32 or NTFS

Kinda OT.. fat32 or NTFS

Kinda OT.. fat32 or NTFS

Kinda OT.. fat32 or NTFS

Kinda OT.. fat32 or NTFS