FAT32 Question

[Bareill]

My neighbour has a new system(Time) with XP Home Edition. I noticed that she
is running XP on FAT32. I always thought that this was not possible. Does XP
not need NTFS? My C Drive & D (Backup) are both NFTS. The E Drive (Recover)
is FAT32.
Have I missed something somewhere?
Thanks for any responses.

 

[Danny Bleu]

It seems you have answered your own question.

My neighbour has a new system(Time) with XP Home Edition. I noticed that she
is running XP on FAT32. I always thought that this was not possible. Does XP
not need NTFS? My C Drive & D (Backup) are both NFTS. The E Drive (Recover)
is FAT32.
Have I missed something somewhere?
Thanks for any responses.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

XP will run fine on FAT32 drives. XP will format FAT32 drives up to 32 Gig
in size, but anything beyond that becomes extremely wasteful of space (due
to slack space in files) and performance suffers. For larger hard drives,
NTFS is the preferred file system.

 

[Bareill]

Thanks Doug for the response.I'll say this to her as she has a much larger
drive, I think somewhere in the region of 140 Gig. So now I know why she is
getting the problems with the performance.
Thanks again. I'm off now to check your sight for changing over to NTFS.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Actually MVP Alex Nichol has written a very good article on converting from
FAT32 to NTFS.

http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm

 

[Bareill]

I'm in your debt.
Thank you.

Actually MVP Alex Nichol has written a very good article on converting from
FAT32 to NTFS.

http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm