ntfs or fat 32

Hey, Just curious about ntfs or fat32. what is the best one to use for games drive with xp os? 1 phsical hard drive partitioned into 2 drives. my c drive is just os and other programs (ntfs). my D drive (games) is fat32. Just wondering if i should convert it to ntfs. anyone? t.i.a. -- Cheers, Ray

only advantage for F32 is that you can see the drive and contents if you have a winxx floppy (after 95v1 that is). Drive tools that fix, or change partitions, recover lost (deleted files) or older ones work on fat/fat 32. Ones that fix NTFS are usually higher priced and or you need the newer version. I keep my storage drives in Fat32 for this reason, but the OS is NTFS. Still if XP goes tits up, I wont as easily recover anything if I have not backed it up recently, you know like email, favorites, setups... with fat32 I almost always able to put the boot disks in and at least copy the stuff I needed to save off the drive, even if I just put the drive as a slave into like the kids' computer. Now since I have a computer at work, Im hopping if XP bites the dust, I can slave it onto the work machine to poke around the NTFS drive to copy stuff off. plus about every couple of weeks I zip things like addressbook, Outlooks email DBases, and my setups folder from NR2003. One other thing is I have successfully reinstalled XP over itself 1 time, and lost nothing but 2 apps I had to reinstall, one was GPL the other was ICQ and maybe Roger wilco/teamspeak? everything else was fine, but then I had to re-update the hell out of XP, and man, what a beech that is, over dialup :) "Ray" <ac.ocitapmys@voyar(u know what to do)> wrote in message news:0qNrb.1068$[email hidden]... > Hey, > Just curious about ntfs or fat32. what is the best one to use for games > drive with xp os? 1 phsical hard drive partitioned into 2 drives. my cdrive

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> is just os and other programs (ntfs). my D drive (games) is fat32. Just > wondering if i should convert it to ntfs. anyone? t.i.a. > > -- > Cheers, Ray > >

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> One other thing is I have successfully reinstalled XP over itself 1 time, > and lost nothing but 2 apps I had to reinstall, one was GPL the other was > ICQ and maybe Roger wilco/teamspeak? everything else was fine, but then I > had to re-update the hell out of XP, and man, what a beech that is, over > dialup :) > >

You had to reinstall GPL? Why so? I didn't think it needed any registry entries or anything - i've certainly just copied it over when I install a new O/S. Ash http://www.siroccoracing.com

Ash, Im not sure, seemed that it would boot and crash, so I "moved" the install I already had to TEMP, then installed from CD, then deleted (via explorer) and then moved Mine back. Then it Ran fine. On a second note, Here is a question for you! I ran Vroc once in a while, then I probably haven't had time to do so, for say 1 or 2 months (was working fine and this was long after recovery reinstall XP, but might have been since the blaster updates and the xp Service pack 1a? not sure on my time frame...) Anyway, I loaded WinVrock up last week, try to join a game, crash to, well it took hard reset/endtask to get out. But even still, GPL runs fine stand alone... haven't done diddley that I know of for about 6 or seven months except a while back there was a new Vroc something or other to be able to see the serverlists, and of course the mirror/connection thing... anyone or you had this happen before? I could reinstall, try and find all the GPLEA cars, as I have NOT done any of the scenery updates for any tracks yet. Wish someone would put all the most popular car-tracks & gfx stuff onto a CD, for me... <wink> dialup sux. if I get it all scoped out again I guess Ill try and make one. But right now not being able to WinVrock into any races kinda took the wind out of doing anything of the sort. Thank Gawd for NR2003 and PWF CTS addons.. :) "Ashley McConnell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bood7j$t0a$[email hidden]... > > > One other thing is I have successfully reinstalled XP over itself 1time, > > and lost nothing but 2 apps I had to reinstall, one was GPL the otherwas > > ICQ and maybe Roger wilco/teamspeak? everything else was fine, but thenI

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> > had to re-update the hell out of XP, and man, what a beech that is, over > > dialup :) > > > > > > You had to reinstall GPL? Why so? I didn't think it needed any registry > entries or anything - i've certainly just copied it over when I install a > new O/S. > > Ash > http://www.siroccoracing.com > >

"Ray" <ac.ocitapmys@voyar(u know what to do)> schreef in bericht news:0qNrb.1068$[email hidden]... > Hey, > Just curious about ntfs or fat32. what is the best one to use for games > drive with xp os? 1 phsical hard drive partitioned into 2 drives. my cdrive > is just os and other programs (ntfs). my D drive (games) is fat32. Just > wondering if i should convert it to ntfs. anyone? t.i.a. > > -- > Cheers, Ray unless you also have win98 on your computer, you can safely go with NTFS make sure you do backup your data from time to time as it's harder to recover NTFS for reasons already mentioned I love the way you don't have to run scandisk when you don't shut down properly using NTFS

To get winvroc to run under XP I think you have to delete the riched.dll in the winvroc directory. "Sting32" <Plowboy is Stingre.AT.y!> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > ... Anyway, I loaded WinVrock > up last week, try to join a game, crash to, well it took hardreset/endtask > to get out. But even still, GPL runs fine stand alone... haven't done > diddley that I know of for about 6 or seven months except a while backthere > was a new Vroc something or other to be able to see the serverlists, andof > course the mirror/connection thing... anyone or you had this happenbefore? >

Tell me what you want (with links), and I'll make and send you a CD, for free. You just have to find all the stuff, that way I have it to. <g> "Sting32" <Plowboy is Stingre.AT.y!> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Ash, > > Im not sure, seemed that it would boot and crash, so I "moved" the installI > already had to TEMP, then installed from CD, then deleted (via explorer)and

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> then moved Mine back. Then it Ran fine. > > On a second note, Here is a question for you! > > I ran Vroc once in a while, then I probably haven't had time to do so, for > say 1 or 2 months (was working fine and this was long after recovery > reinstall XP, but might have been since the blaster updates and the xp > Service pack 1a? not sure on my time frame...) Anyway, I loaded

WinVrock > up last week, try to join a game, crash to, well it took hardreset/endtask > to get out. But even still, GPL runs fine stand alone... haven't done > diddley that I know of for about 6 or seven months except a while backthere > was a new Vroc something or other to be able to see the serverlists, andof > course the mirror/connection thing... anyone or you had this happenbefore? > > I could reinstall, try and find all the GPLEA cars, as I have NOT done any > of the scenery updates for any tracks yet. Wish someone would put all the > most popular car-tracks & gfx stuff onto a CD, for me... <wink> dialup > sux. if I get it all scoped out again I guess Ill try and make one. But > right now not being able to WinVrock into any races kinda took the windout

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> of doing anything of the sort. Thank Gawd for NR2003 and PWF CTS addons.. > :) > > > "Ashley McConnell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:bood7j$t0a$[email hidden]... > > > > > One other thing is I have successfully reinstalled XP over itself 1 > time, > > > and lost nothing but 2 apps I had to reinstall, one was GPL the other > was > > > ICQ and maybe Roger wilco/teamspeak? everything else was fine, but

then > I > > > had to re-update the hell out of XP, and man, what a beech that is,over > > > dialup :) > > > > > > > > > > You had to reinstall GPL? Why so? I didn't think it needed anyregistry > > entries or anything - i've certainly just copied it over when I installa

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> > new O/S. > > > > Ash > > http://www.siroccoracing.com > > > > > > >

Hey there, Fat32 is good for long writes to disk. NTFS is good for short quick 'burst' disk access. I use Fat32 because I backup a lot of my sims, some up to 15gig in size, so Fat32 performs better. Plus I can see it all in 98 / 2000 and XP. But I use NTFS for security reasons at work. Still performs pretty good, but is a little slower. hope that helps, James "Ray" <ac.ocitapmys@voyar(u know what to do)> wrote in message news:0qNrb.1068$[email hidden]... > Hey, > Just curious about ntfs or fat32. what is the best one to use for games > drive with xp os? 1 phsical hard drive partitioned into 2 drives. my cdrive

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> is just os and other programs (ntfs). my D drive (games) is fat32. Just > wondering if i should convert it to ntfs. anyone? t.i.a. > > -- > Cheers, Ray > >

thanks for the replies, ok, so what I'm hearing from you all is that fat32 is better for the games( better performance ie faster=good) and ntfs is more stable but runs the games a bit slower=bad cheers, ray. "James" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3fb03bb0$[email hidden]... > Hey there, > > Fat32 is good for long writes to disk. NTFS is good for short quick'burst' > disk access. > > I use Fat32 because I backup a lot of my sims, some up to 15gig in size,so

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> Fat32 performs better. Plus I can see it all in 98 / 2000 and XP. > > But I use NTFS for security reasons at work. Still performs pretty good, > but is a little slower. > > > hope that helps, > > James > > > "Ray" <ac.ocitapmys@voyar(u know what to do)> wrote in message > news:0qNrb.1068$[email hidden]... > > Hey, > > Just curious about ntfs or fat32. what is the best one to use for games > > drive with xp os? 1 phsical hard drive partitioned into 2 drives. my c > drive > > is just os and other programs (ntfs). my D drive (games) is fat32. Just > > wondering if i should convert it to ntfs. anyone? t.i.a. > > > > -- > > Cheers, Ray > > > > > >

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:51:44 -0500, "Ray" <ac.ocitapmys@voyar(u know what to do)> wrote: >thanks for the replies, ok, so what I'm hearing from you all is that fat32 >is better for the games( better performance ie faster=good) and ntfs is more >stable but runs the games a bit slower=bad Heavy emphasis on "bit" in "bit slower". The performance loss is minimal compared to the stability of the filesystem. I wouldn't use FAT32 any more. -- Andrew. To email unscramble [email hidden] & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question.

I'll second that. The whole file system speed argument seems kind of dumb to me. The games I have never access the hard drive anyway except when starting up, or loading a track. So when playing/driving, there is no speed difference. CPU's and video cards are soooo much more important. Todd "Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:51:44 -0500, "Ray" <ac.ocitapmys@voyar(u know > what to do)> wrote: > > >thanks for the replies, ok, so what I'm hearing from you all is thatfat32 > >is better for the games( better performance ie faster=good) and ntfs ismore

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> >stable but runs the games a bit slower=bad > > Heavy emphasis on "bit" in "bit slower". The performance loss is > minimal compared to the stability of the filesystem. I wouldn't use > FAT32 any more. > -- > Andrew. To email unscramble [email hidden] & remove spamtrap. > Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, > please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. > Check groups.google.com before asking a question.

"Sting32" <Plowboy is Stingre.AT.y!> wrote in message news:3fafee29$[email hidden]... > Now since I have a computer at work, Im > hopping if XP bites the dust, I can slave it onto the work machine to poke > around the NTFS drive to copy stuff off. This is exactly the case. As long as you are an XP Pro admin you can slave *any* NTFS drive (back to NT 4 in my experience) and read the contents. I do this routinely when saving client's systems. The one exception is if you use Encrypted File System to protect files. You must have previously exported your keys to removable media and then install the keys on the rescue machine... otherwise those files will be unreadable. BTW, Recovery Console on the XP CD had gotten me out of trouble countless times. It's super basic but you can get in and sometimes repair the problem. D.