High Capacity Harddisks & Partition format?

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Asad Ul-Islam

Dear techies!

I used to have Western Digital 250 GB Harddisk and i had formatted it with
NTFS. I have severe power storage in my City due to which my PC has to suffer
frequent shutdowns. I observed that with NTFS parition improper shutdowns
result in Curroption of Windows too often as compare to the FAT Partition one.

Just interested in Knowing if there is any technical justification for this
scenario of mine?? I know NTFS is said to be much more resilient than FAT ..
but my observation says that NTFS performs w0rst than FAT in case of IMPORPER
SHUTDOWNS.

anyone to confirm this?? or provide technical justification
 
G

Gordon

Asad Ul-Islam said:
Dear techies!

I used to have Western Digital 250 GB Harddisk and i had formatted it with
NTFS. I have severe power storage in my City due to which my PC has to
suffer
frequent shutdowns. I observed that with NTFS parition improper shutdowns
result in Curroption of Windows too often as compare to the FAT Partition
one.
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Buy a UPS - they're not expensive and allow you to shut down properly when
you get a powercut....
 
A

Asad Ul-Islam

well i know about UPS ..

but i am more interested in knowing about the technical aspects of my
Observation
 
B

Bjarke Andersen

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but i am more interested in knowing about the technical aspects of my
Observation
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I think it is due to induvidual independance relating to which type of data
normally written to your harddrives and setup

I have never experienced partition errors due power outage, that said in my
case this situation occurs in non-raid XP and NT4 desktops.

If you e.g. have a raid system, your setup can be more vulnerable to errors
since your controller and data is spread over more than one disk.
 
M

Mark

Turn off Write Cache under Device Manager/Properties for your drive. This
will help.

Mark
 
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