Kalium wrote:Yes. It does. XP prefers NTFS, but, the size cap on FAT32 aside, it's better than NTFS in many ways. Example: FAT32 doesn't become 99.6% fragmented doing a sequential write. (Yes, that actually happened to me with NTFS)
LovEnPeaCE wrote:Kalium wrote:Yes. It does. XP prefers NTFS, but, the size cap on FAT32 aside, it's better than NTFS in many ways. Example: FAT32 doesn't become 99.6% fragmented doing a sequential write. (Yes, that actually happened to me with NTFS)
so does this mean that if i have a fat32 drive, xp will format it into a ntfs if i choose, correct?
LovEnPeaCE wrote:Kalium wrote:Yes. It does. XP prefers NTFS, but, the size cap on FAT32 aside, it's better than NTFS in many ways. Example: FAT32 doesn't become 99.6% fragmented doing a sequential write. (Yes, that actually happened to me with NTFS)
so does this mean that if i have a fat32 drive, xp will format it into a ntfs if i choose, correct?
Brolly345 wrote:The only real problem I can think of with file systems and XP is if you only have a FAT type hard drive. FAT32 and NTFS work fine, NTFS being the newest. FAT only doesn't work because that, if memory serves me right, that system is pretty old. I think even Windows 98 needs FAT32.
Phade wrote:(I've actually promised to spend some time with my wife now. It's "happy Friday time".)
narcted wrote:
XP can format your drive to NTFS. The problem is that to format a harddrive it requires total erasure of data.
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