NTFS & small capacity drives

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I seem to remember reading somewhere that NTFS isn't really suitable for
relatively small drives, can anyone confirm whether this is the case?
 
What do you consider as small capacity?

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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I had a go at re-formatting a 10-Gb partition on a larger HDD & seemed to
encounter a few problems.

Cheers,

Mick.
 
Hi,

No reason not to use NTFS on a 10GB drive. The inefficiency attributed to it
only occurs on drives of less than 400MB, and that's a pretty rare size to
find nowadays.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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Mickw said:
I seem to remember reading somewhere that NTFS isn't really suitable
for relatively small drives, can anyone confirm whether this is the
case?
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No, it's not true. Some of the advantages of NTFS aren't present with
relatively small drives, but there's really no disadvantage.
 
I have formatted many 10 gig partitions as NTFS without any problem or
performance hit.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Thanks for the tip, I'm begining to think that my problems may be due to my
HDD starting to fail. The 10Gb partition I re-formatted to NTFS is regularly
scanned on boot-up & the report always shows quite a few bad sectors. I think
it may be time to copy the files from the other partitions on this HDD to
somewhere else!

Cheers,

Mick
 
Hi,

Best way to know for sure is a drive diagnostic utility from the
manufacturer. These are generally free and run from a bootable floppy, they
will tell you the state of the drive and whether it's a candidate for
replacement.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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