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Posted by Leperous on Sat May 29th at 11:39pm 2004

I wasn't aware you could convert back from NTFS to FAT?



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Posted by Rumple on Sun May 30th at 6:09am 2004

sorry OtZman cant find it

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun May 30th at 10:45am 2004

You can Lep, but it puts all your filenames to 8 characters long, so most software that you had won't run any more.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun May 30th at 10:48am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
You can Lep, but it puts all your filenames to 8 characters long, so most software that you had won't run any more.

who would want to switch back? is there any positive benefit jeff?

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun May 30th at 11:07am 2004

FAT32 is faster in some situations, but not all. For example, if you have a directory with 2000 files, NTFS will display them faster, but if you have one big file, FAT32 will copy it faster... or something like that. NTFS is more secure.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun May 30th at 11:36am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
FAT32 is faster in some situations, but not all. For example, if you have a directory with 2000 files, NTFS will display them faster, but if you have one big file, FAT32 will copy it faster... or something like that. NTFS is more secure.

well, the only big files i have, seem to be on CDR soon after completion, so i reckon i can stick to NTFS for a bit

thanx jeff

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Posted by Gwil on Sun May 30th at 12:07pm 2004

NTFS also doesn't have the HORRENDOUS fragmentation issues that afflicted FAT32, at least not in my experience and general concensus on the system.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun May 30th at 12:11pm 2004

may be my imagination though, but fat32 seems to defrag a whole lot faster.. my new pc defrags slower than my old 550 did, in spite of the same size hard drives. maybe my files are just so much bigger now.. i didn't have 700 megs movies then :/



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Posted by OtZman on Mon May 31st at 9:58am 2004

I don't think that it's a problem with the filesystem... I can access all "old" files but those that were stored in the "account folders", Like "C:Documents and Settings[something]". On the login screen those old usernames doesn't appear at all. It seems like both my HDs use the NTFS system.

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Posted by Crono on Mon May 31st at 10:18am 2004

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may be my imagination though, but fat32 seems to defrag a whole lot faster.. my new pc defrags slower than my old 550 did, in spite of the same size hard drives.

maybe my files are just so much bigger now.. i didn't have 700 megs movies then :/


I believe NTFS files have to be contiguous. So, like you said, having large files (which have to be contiguously placed) would take awhile to move. [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Mon May 31st at 4:15pm 2004

Now I've formated my HD. This time I made a 7gb partition for Windows and programs. I hope I don't have to encounter this problem in a loooooong time again.

Thx for your help guys

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