fat 32 vs. ntfs

[paul]

Hey All,

I have a laptop running XP, loaded on FAT32 not NTFS will
this cause office xp to be unstable?

Thanks,

 

[Chris Lanier]

no
http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.htm

 

[Dublevay]

Not immediately. But FAT32 can sometimes be prone to some very odd things,
and can suddenly cause catastrophic failures.

I used to use FAT32 until I upgraded to Win 2000, and then, kept a couple of
partitions as FAT32, and the rest as NTFS, so that I could dual boot into
Win98 or whatever else. When XP arrived though, I decided that I no longer
needed FAT32. All of my partitions are now NTFS.

JW

 

[tbrox]

No,

The first FAT32 (Win95 OSR@) was unstable but FAT32 today
is not unstable. NTFS is more secure and all around
better. It's just hard to access with a boot disk.

 

[CS]

Not immediately. But FAT32 can sometimes be prone to some very odd things,
and can suddenly cause catastrophic failures.

Not hardly! FAT-32 causes no more catastrophic failures than does
NTFS or any other file system. Lousy hardware and poorly written
software can though....

I used to use FAT32 until I upgraded to Win 2000, and then, kept a couple of
partitions as FAT32, and the rest as NTFS, so that I could dual boot into
Win98 or whatever else. When XP arrived though, I decided that I no longer
needed FAT32. All of my partitions are now NTFS.

That's fine and I agree. My XP system is likewise NTFS.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I have a laptop running XP, loaded on FAT32 not NTFS will
this cause office xp to be unstable?

No.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a laptop running XP, loaded on FAT32 not NTFS will
this cause office xp to be unstable?

No. Office will be quite happy, and FAT is likely to be quite suitable
for a laptop. For considerations as between FAT and NTFS see
www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.htm