NTFS or FAT32 ?

[Shenan Stanley]

And for a USB thumb drive, NTFS may be a bit overkill. One
advantage of FAT is its flexibility, in being accessable by so many
OS. Personally, I can't see why anyone would go to the trouble of
making a USB thumb drive NTFS (unless you're talking tens of GB,
and even then, it's quite optional, unless you're storing HUGE
video files)

I have many small drives I use for booting to troubleshoot or install
stuff... (1-4GB) but mostly I have 32 and 64GB USB thumb drives/memory
sticks. I generally use FAT32 for compatibility reasons - but have used
NTFS on a few of the 32/64GB ones for transferring my larger video files
around.

Everything is optional - or more strictly put - done in accordance to your
needs. ;-)

 

[- Bobb -]

I'm glad Norton Ghost's Gdisk.exe which runs under DOS, partitions and
formats my big fat32 drive to my liking. I see no downside to fat32.

Paul, (if long answer - maybe a new thread) which version of Ghost do you
use ?

On this new 1TB MyBook when I tried Ghost2003 on XP, Ghost booted and even
before Ghost menu, I got a " divide overflow". My 500gb MyBook was Ok, but
this 1000gb was inaccessible .

And with Ghost 15 , after one hour of formatting to NTFS (under XP - not
standalone), it STILL it estimated 9 hrs to complete formatting. How long
was your formatting /partitioning.

 

[Paul]

Paul, (if long answer - maybe a new thread) which version of Ghost do you
use ?

On this new 1TB MyBook when I tried Ghost2003 on XP, Ghost booted and even
before Ghost menu, I got a " divide overflow". My 500gb MyBook was Ok, but
this 1000gb was inaccessible .

And with Ghost 15 , after one hour of formatting to NTFS (under XP - not
standalone), it STILL it estimated 9 hrs to complete formatting. How long
was your formatting /partitioning.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302686

"The scan for bad sectors is responsible for the majority of the time
that it takes to format a volume."

1TB divided by 30MB/sec is about 9+ hours, sounds about right.

Paul