Format Hard-drive

I currently have a 40 gig hard-drive partitioned into two 20 gigs and one has all my music and videos and games and the other has my windows xp and all that crap on it. I also have a 60 gig which I just put in and has nothing on it. I heard about this new file system thing called NFTS and was wondering if I should convert all 3 of my hard-drives to this new format becuz they all three are currently using FAT32 system. I heard that NFTS was not as fast but has better compresion. So I need to know whether or not I should convert them without any data loss?

Thanx Alot

You can have one NTFS and the others FAT32 that is no problem, now about formatting i preffer FAT32 because one time i formatted my hole HDD in NTFS and then Xp got weird and one time i tried to enter Win XP and a Blue screen appeared (yes like the ones in 98) telling me that there was an error in a archive called NTFS.sys and when i tried to format via the WINXP installation disk the same blue screen appeared and i thought i losted my HDD but thanks to LINUX i got evrything running back to normal, so since that time i HATE NTFS :angry:

Also when I try to defrag one of my hard-drives it says that no defragger is installed and when I check I come to find out that I must have deleted it. So now I am wondering what is the best defragger I can get off mIRC or Kazaa Lite?

Oh my God!

Sorry, I can't even begin here.

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Originally posted by volskid2002@27 July 2003 - 01:20
I heard about this new file system thing called NFTS

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:lol:

THIS ONE IS FREE "HERE"

Please don't post direct links. at least not without identifying what it is that's being linked to.
Since you haven't figured it out yet, I suggest you use the edited link to educate yourself on the various file systems used.
The only excuse for using any thing as unsecured and inefficient as fat32 in an XP environment would be to put your shares or archived files on for access between systems if you have a win9x/XP/NT multiple boot system.
As for the third party "fix it all up" software, leave it alone untill you are experienced in using the tools and applications included in you operating system.
It's not supposed to be a race to see how fast you can fill your drives with this crap.

NTFS only works on a profesional o/s such NT/2000/XP pro anything else it would incompatible.

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Originally posted by volskid2002@27 July 2003 - 01:20
has my windows xp and all that crap on it. I also have a 60 gig which I just put in and has nothing on it.

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I think you may be missing the context here Neo 721 . He in fact has XP installed.
The question and the answer naturaly then revolve around that system.

And this explains why NTFS is essential to XP/NT systems >>

http://www.ntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=3455

alright thanx for all the help but is there any way i can get the defragger than came with xp pro back on my computer

You should be able to pull defragntfs.exe from your install disk or get someone to email you a copy of theirs and just drop it into the system32 folder. If all the .dll and other files are still there it should work OK.

I use NTFS!!!!
It is faster and better than the old FAT32. Defragging NTFS on a 60GB HDD is faster than FAT32 on a 60GB HDD (Use Diskeeper for defragging).

NTFS is much more stable than FAT32. If you have a legit copy of XP and install it, but then you get an error or blue screen, then you have some HDD problems (physical BAD spots).

lol legit? k please some1 tell me that he got a legal copy of winxp...

back to the topic in question.... ntfs has worked marvels for me
it owns fat32 so much, its faster, much more stable....and blue screen isnt from ntfs cygnuz...

DWk

NTFS is a must on winxp... if you consider anything else, you should uninstall your os... format your hard drive, boot up and stare at your bios... would make an equal amount of sense as not using ntfs on xp

I agree, NTFS is the way to go if you're using Windows XP. I've never had a problem with it and I've been using it for a long time now.

I have a Seagate 4 Gb in FAT32... for OpSys...
Then, My WD caviar 80GB partitioned in 3.. 47 Gb/ 5GB/24,4GB
47GB -> NTFS Used for storage only, no apps.
5GB -> NTFS Used For studies purposes ( Documents, thesis and all that, no apps.)
24,4GB-> FAT32 Used for applications (Games, players, software in general)

Simple, FAT32 Is way more compatible.
NTFS is for NT versions (i think.....)

NTFS has more compression... but .-. i prefer standard