Hard Drive issue

[Guest]

I have 2 hard drive in my computer. One is 80 gb WD (master) and the other
one is 20 gb Maxter (slave). I know I should format the 80 gb drive using
NTFS. What kind of format should I use in the 20 gb drive? FAT32? or NTFS?
If I use FAT32 will there be conflict between 2 drives when I transfer files?

Wilson

 

[Rock]

I have 2 hard drive in my computer. One is 80 gb WD (master) and the other
one is 20 gb Maxter (slave). I know I should format the 80 gb drive using
NTFS. What kind of format should I use in the 20 gb drive? FAT32? or NTFS?
If I use FAT32 will there be conflict between 2 drives when I transfer files?

Wilson

You will get differing opinions but in general you should go with NTFS
for both though there is no problem if they were different.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Use NTFS on both drives unless you have a specific reason to format the 20GB
as FAT32.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

I have 2 hard drive in my computer. One is 80 gb WD (master) and the other
one is 20 gb Maxter (slave). I know I should format the 80 gb drive using
NTFS. What kind of format should I use in the 20 gb drive? FAT32? or NTFS?
If I use FAT32 will there be conflict between 2 drives when I transfer files?

Wilson

Windows will handle combinations of FAT32 and NTFS just fine. There are
some limitations to using FAT32, it can't deal with file sizes above
just under 4GB and it is not as robust file system as NTFS. My
recommendation is to use NTFS for both unless you have a need for
accessing the 20GB from a different operating system than WinXP/2K/NT
(Win9x/ME or Linux).

Steve

 

[Al Smith]

I have 2 hard drive in my computer. One is 80 gb WD (master) and the other

one is 20 gb Maxter (slave). I know I should format the 80 gb drive using
NTFS. What kind of format should I use in the 20 gb drive? FAT32? or NTFS?
If I use FAT32 will there be conflict between 2 drives when I transfer files?

Wilson

I'm running this setup now, except that my NTFS boot drive is 80
gigs, and my FAT32 drive is 120 gigs. No conflicts, no problems at
all. Windows XP can't make a file larger than 4 gigs on a FAT32
drive, but so far this hasn't been an issue with me. I'd say you
might want your data drive to be FAT32 if you think at some future
time that you might install Windows98, and have access to your
data from that OS, or if you think you might ever need to access
the data on the FAT32 drive from DOS.

 

[Ken Blake]

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I have 2 hard drive in my computer. One is 80 gb WD (master)
and the
other one is 20 gb Maxter (slave). I know I should format the
80 gb
drive using NTFS. What kind of format should I use in the 20
gb
drive? FAT32? or NTFS?

You can use either, but unless there is some special reason to
prefer FAT32, you should normally use NTFS.

If I use FAT32 will there be conflict between
2 drives when I transfer files?

Absolutely not. Is there any conflict between the different file
systems when you transfer data from a floppy or CD to the hard
drive? It's no different with NTFS and FAT32.

Windows XP supports NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12, in any and all
combinations.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have 2 hard drive in my computer. One is 80 gb WD (master) and the other
one is 20 gb Maxter (slave). I know I should format the 80 gb drive using
NTFS. What kind of format should I use in the 20 gb drive? FAT32? or NTFS?
If I use FAT32 will there be conflict between 2 drives when I transfer files?

You could use FAT 32 on the smaller one if there is good reason (eg
wanting also to access from Win98). But in the ordinary way I would use
NTFS for that too. You can run any mix of FAT and NTFS - the files are
the same either way. All you could lose is some of the extra access
control and additional descriptive metadata on moving a file from NTFS
to FAT

I would not make the 80 GB into a single partition with the system and
everything else down to kitchen sinks on it. Make one of about say 15
GB, which is plenty for system and programs, and another for large size
data files. Redirect things like My Documents either there or to the
20GB one