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Rich
That just occured to me.
I've got five external HDs, two of which are FAT32
I bet I know the answer
Rich
I've got five external HDs, two of which are FAT32
I bet I know the answer
Rich
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Will VISTA read/write to a FAT32 filesystem on an external (USB or Firewire) HD?
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Richard Urban
Vista must be installed on a fat32 partition. Any other partition or drive
can be formatted as fat32. I don't know why anyone would want to do this,
unless you are dual booting with Windows 98/ME.
BTW, all thumb drives are formatted as fat and they work, don't they?
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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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!
can be formatted as fat32. I don't know why anyone would want to do this,
unless you are dual booting with Windows 98/ME.
BTW, all thumb drives are formatted as fat and they work, don't they?
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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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!
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Richard Urban
Oops! Correction.
Vista must be installed to an NTFS partition.
Brain Fart!
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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!
Vista must be installed to an NTFS partition.
Brain Fart!
--
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!
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Rich
Vista has NOT been installed yet
Vista WILL be installed on NTFS
all internal HDs are NTFS
the five external drives in question, all media storage, are a mixture of
FAT32 and NTFS
will Vista recognize them?
Something somewhere has stuck in my head, that Vista is NTFS only, probably
wrong about this.
they come preformatted as FAT32, just easier to use them as is instead of
reformatting a one Terabyte drive etc.
Again this has NOTHING to do with the drive Vista will be installed on.
Rich
Vista WILL be installed on NTFS
all internal HDs are NTFS
the five external drives in question, all media storage, are a mixture of
FAT32 and NTFS
will Vista recognize them?
Something somewhere has stuck in my head, that Vista is NTFS only, probably
wrong about this.
they come preformatted as FAT32, just easier to use them as is instead of
reformatting a one Terabyte drive etc.
Again this has NOTHING to do with the drive Vista will be installed on.
Rich
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Richard Urban
Vista reads and writes to fat32 partitions just fine. Most external USB hard
drives and all USB thumb drives are either fat or fat32.
--
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!
drives and all USB thumb drives are either fat or fat32.
--
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!
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Clive in Kent
Rich said:Vista has NOT been installed yet
Vista WILL be installed on NTFS
all internal HDs are NTFS
the five external drives in question, all media storage, are a mixture of
FAT32 and NTFS
will Vista recognize them?
Something somewhere has stuck in my head, that Vista is NTFS only,
probably wrong about this.
they come preformatted as FAT32, just easier to use them as is instead of
reformatting a one Terabyte drive etc.
Again this has NOTHING to do with the drive Vista will be installed on.
Rich
My external HD worked fine with FAT 32 after a clean Vista installation.
However I've since converted it to NTFS just in case any future problems
Clive (Kent GB)
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Rich
thanks,
one less task in preperation.
The more I thought about that the more obvious it was.
Its not hard to think oneself into a corner
Rich
one less task in preperation.
The more I thought about that the more obvious it was.
Its not hard to think oneself into a corner
Rich
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Richard Urban
With a large external drive I would still format it as NTFS. There is less
wastage due to the cluster size. Vista created NTFS partitions contain 4kb
allocation units. Fat32 units may be up to 64kb in size. If you store many
small files on the drive you waste a lot of space. Plus, NTFS formatted
drives are more fault tolerant and the file system is somewhat self
repairing.
I can't remember the last time I lost a file due to corruption caused by an
improper shutdown. Try that with a fat32 drive.
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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!
wastage due to the cluster size. Vista created NTFS partitions contain 4kb
allocation units. Fat32 units may be up to 64kb in size. If you store many
small files on the drive you waste a lot of space. Plus, NTFS formatted
drives are more fault tolerant and the file system is somewhat self
repairing.
I can't remember the last time I lost a file due to corruption caused by an
improper shutdown. Try that with a fat32 drive.
--
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!
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Richard G. Harper
Yes, Vista will use a FAT32 external storage device with no problems.
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Roy Coorne
Richard Urban said:Oops! Correction.
Vista must be installed to an NTFS partition.
Brain Fart!
Perhaps, you are familiar with the possibility of eigen cancel (in
your Windows Mail: >Message >Cancel Message);-)
rOy
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Roy Coorne
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRichard Urban said:Vista reads and writes to fat32 partitions just fine. Most external
USB hard drives and all USB thumb drives are either fat or fat32.
?
I have several USB flash drives and formatted them in NTFS - they work
in XP SP2 and in VISTA (also ReadyBoost).
Roy
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Chad Harris
It will recognize the FAT 32 flash memory of a NANO.
CH
CH
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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
Roy;
Cancelling a message is unreliable at best.
Even if the message is cancelled on this server, there is no requirement
that the message is cancelled on other servers and in many cases is not
cancelled.
For all practical purposes cancelling is impossible once the message is
beyond Microsoft servers, and that may only be a few seconds.
Cancelling a message is unreliable at best.
Even if the message is cancelled on this server, there is no requirement
that the message is cancelled on other servers and in many cases is not
cancelled.
For all practical purposes cancelling is impossible once the message is
beyond Microsoft servers, and that may only be a few seconds.
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Michal Kawecki
Roy Coorne said:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
?
I have several USB flash drives and formatted them in NTFS - they work
in XP SP2 and in VISTA (also ReadyBoost).
If you don't concern about flash durability then format it as NTFS.
Otherwise I can recommend only FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem, because there
will be significantly less write operations like for ex. last acces
timestamp update.
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Guest
Richard Urban said:Vista reads and writes to fat32 partitions just fine. Most external USB hard
drives and all USB thumb drives are either fat or fat32.
well today i installed vista on NTFS but its not recognizing my FAT32
partitions. ????? can you help me with that ??
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Richard Urban
Information! Then more information!! Then we can ask questions to extract
yet more information from you.
As of now - you have given NONE!
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
yet more information from you.
As of now - you have given NONE!
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
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Frank
Adnan said::
well today i installed vista on NTFS but its not recognizing my FAT32
partitions. ????? can you help me with that ??
Have you activated them in disk management..."mark partition as active"?
Won't work till you do.
Frank
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...winston
Frank,
Are you suggesting the op 'mark' a non o/s primary and/or logical Fat32 partitions as active ?
...winston
: Adnan wrote:
:
: >
: > "Richard Urban" wrote:
: >
: >
: >>Vista reads and writes to fat32 partitions just fine. Most external USB hard
: >>drives and all USB thumb drives are either fat or fat32.
: >>
: >>--
: >>
: >>
: >
: >
: > well today i installed vista on NTFS but its not recognizing my FAT32
: > partitions. ????? can you help me with that ??
:
: Have you activated them in disk management..."mark partition as active"?
: Won't work till you do.
: Frank
Are you suggesting the op 'mark' a non o/s primary and/or logical Fat32 partitions as active ?
...winston
: Adnan wrote:
:
: >
: > "Richard Urban" wrote:
: >
: >
: >>Vista reads and writes to fat32 partitions just fine. Most external USB hard
: >>drives and all USB thumb drives are either fat or fat32.
: >>
: >>--
: >>
: >>
: >
: >
: > well today i installed vista on NTFS but its not recognizing my FAT32
: > partitions. ????? can you help me with that ??
:
: Have you activated them in disk management..."mark partition as active"?
: Won't work till you do.
: Frank
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Frank
....winston said:Frank,
Are you suggesting the op 'mark' a non o/s primary and/or logical Fat32 partitions as active ?
...winston
Sure am as long as they are not on the same psychical drive.
All of mine are.
Frank
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Frank
Frank said:Sure am as long as they are not on the same psychical drive.
All of mine are.
Frank
That's physical drive.
Damn open sores spck!
Frank
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