Partitioned hard drive question?

[Rich]

Hi,
I have a Sony notebook that i just reformated the hard drive
and loaded winxp home.
I partioned the hard drive using xp disk management into
two partions, my c is 5.8gig for os etc and e is 3.5gig for
storage.
I just realized that somehow i have the c using fat32
and e in NTFS. Everything runs fine and both partions
(according to disk management) are healthy.

Is this ok to leave or should i have the entire hard drive
using the same file system?

thanks,
rich

 

[Tom Cahill]

It is perfectly fine to have one NTFS and one FAT32. The only place you
would run into trouble is if you were to dual boot with another OS that does
not support NTFS. You would not be able to access the NTFS partition in
that case.

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Tom Cahill

Hi,
I have a Sony notebook that i just reformated the hard drive
and loaded winxp home.
I partioned the hard drive using xp disk management into
two partions, my c is 5.8gig for os etc and e is 3.5gig for
storage.
I just realized that somehow i have the c using fat32
and e in NTFS. Everything runs fine and both partions
(according to disk management) are healthy.

Is this ok to leave or should i have the entire hard drive
using the same file system?

thanks,
rich

 

[Rich]

Thank's for the replies.
I think i will leave it alone and try to
figure out why this thing misspells after midnight.
rich

 

[Rich]

Your right, this is a notebook with 6GB and 3.5GB
I did change the first partition to NTFS with no problem
and i picked up about 200 mb more space.
Are you saying 10GB drive should be kept at a FAT32
file system? I don't think i could change it back (if i wanted to)
without a complete backup, reformat and reinstall xp.?.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Your right, this is a notebook with 6GB and 3.5GB
I did change the first partition to NTFS with no problem
and i picked up about 200 mb more space.
Are you saying 10GB drive should be kept at a FAT32
file system? I don't think i could change it back (if i wanted to)
without a complete backup, reformat and reinstall xp.?.

No - leave it as it is. The 6GB is fair enough as NTFS, but the 3.5
would be too small for efficiency.