Adding a larger slave drive, XP

[santas little helper]

My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan
to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason
besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine.

Jon

 

[Guest]

It's not just security ie FAT32/NTFS NTFS is more robust and allows for error
correcting, better than FAT32, also allows larger file size

 

[smlunatick]

My current primary drive is NTFS and my slave drive is FAT32. I plan
to add a larger slave drive and wonder if there is any good reason
besides security to make it NTFS? The FAT32 has been doing fine.

Jon

In XP, Microsoft has purposely placed limts on:

1) FAT32 Partition size -- 32GB max.

2) A 4GB file size when saving/copy/creating a file on any FAT32
partition

 

[Tim Slattery]

In XP, Microsoft has purposely placed limts on:

1) FAT32 Partition size -- 32GB max.

2) A 4GB file size when saving/copy/creating a file on any FAT32
partition

No, not quite. XP cannot create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. It
will happily use larger FAT32 partitions created by Partition Manager,
the Win98 FDISK utility or whatever.

The 4GB limit is part of FAT32, not WinXP. If you're using FAT32 on
Win98, WinMe, WinXP, or any other OS (I think Linux can handle FAT32),
there's a 4GB file size limit. There's also a limit on entries per
directory, which NTFS does not have.

 

[Lil' Dave]

No, not quite. XP cannot create a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. It
will happily use larger FAT32 partitions created by Partition Manager,
the Win98 FDISK utility or whatever.

The 4GB limit is part of FAT32, not WinXP. If you're using FAT32 on
Win98, WinMe, WinXP, or any other OS (I think Linux can handle FAT32),
there's a 4GB file size limit. There's also a limit on entries per
directory, which NTFS does not have.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
(e-mail address removed)
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

There's a wrap using fdisk making FAT32 partitions. This occurs when
addressing the partition size after creating the partition and formatting.
The original using win98's version of msdos is 64GB. The newer downloadable
version is 128GB.

Most newer versions of 3rd party software for making partitions don't have
this problem with FAT32.
Dave