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Guest · Jul 21, 2004

My drives changed to UDF File System and I want them to be in NTFS how do I get them to chang back I cannot drag and record no more it only see half the capacity of the disks.

Miss Perspicacia Tick · Jul 21, 2004

Fugitive108 said:
My drives changed to UDF File System and I want them to be in NTFS
how do I get them to chang back I cannot drag and record no more it
only see half the capacity of the disks.

I've read this several times and it makes no sense. UDF = Universal Disc
(though I have seen Data used) Format and is a formatting applied to
writeable optical media. NTFS is a formatting applied to fixed disks (i.e.
hard drives). Just as formatting a fixed disc in UDF is impossible, thus the
reverse is also true - you cannot format a removable disc either NTFS or
FAT.

Could you please post back and clarify what, exactly, it is you're
attempting?

For more information on UDF see
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/Universal_Disk_Format.html.

Yves Leclerc · Jul 21, 2004

If you format a CD-RW/DVD-+RW media with Ahead's InCD (Nero) or Roxio's Drag
to Disk(DirectCD), then the media is in UDF format. UDF format is used so
that you read/write/rewrite files to the disks.

NTFS is a format that is used primarily for hard drives.

Miss Perspicacia Tick · Jul 22, 2004

Yves said:
If you format a CD-RW/DVD-+RW media with Ahead's InCD (Nero) or
Roxio's Drag to Disk(DirectCD), then the media is in UDF format. UDF
format is used so that you read/write/rewrite files to the disks.

NTFS is a format that is used primarily for hard drives.

Unless you can tell me what else uses it, then "primarily" should read
'exclusively'.

Nathan McNulty · Jul 22, 2004

Well, technically you can use NTFS on Floppy Disks and maybe Flash
drives, but I think those would fit under the same catagory as the
harddrive. I just had to post and say hi to Miss P

Miss Perspicacia Tick · Jul 22, 2004

Nathan said:
Well, technically you can use NTFS on Floppy Disks and maybe Flash
drives, but I think those would fit under the same catagory as the
harddrive. I just had to post and say hi to Miss P

Erm, no you can't. Floppies use FAT12 and you cannot use NTFS on removable
media. Now do bugger off, there's a good moron.

Teddd · Jul 22, 2004

Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
Erm, no you can't. Floppies use FAT12 and you cannot use NTFS on removable
media. Now do bugger off, there's a good moron.

Well, I am NOT sorry to say that you are wrong, as Nathan, in the short time he has been posting here, has shown knowledge about PCs in hardware and software, light years ahead of your gormless arse!
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Nathan, if it means anything to you, to show this ¢ünt doesn't know her arse from a hole in the ground, the bint says one must have packet writing software installed on their PCs, to have the ability to simply add (not delete) more files to an existing CDR or CDRW. She has not once told an itinerant poster here that told her otherwise, that he was wrong probably because she typically plonks people that correct her when she is wrong.

She also is gracious enough to get on others for improper spelling and bad grammar, yet she violates her owns words.

Ask her what a "Clumberland Spaniel" is (she stated this is a breed of dog, but it doesn't exist). Also ask her what a "brancell" is.

Nathan McNulty · Jul 22, 2004

NTFS can be used on floppies. Microsoft simply chose not to allow that
option with Windows. Try this program:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsfloppy.shtml

Why should I bugger off and who's the moron?

Nathan McNulty · Jul 23, 2004

NTFS Floppies:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsfloppy.shtml

As for the dog, I think she meant a Clumber Spaniel which is actually a
pretty cool dog

Ted · Jul 23, 2004