Hard Drive Formatting

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:12 am

If i convert this, lets say there is no damage to the files will premiere still be able to find the clips in the same way? Just had some trouble with that already, cos if the tree changes then premeire wont find my files and its much harder to convert back.
Cheers for your help!

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:23 pm

lister007 wrote:If i convert this, lets say there is no damage to the files will premiere still be able to find the clips in the same way? Just had some trouble with that already, cos if the tree changes then premeire wont find my files and its much harder to convert back.
Cheers for your help!

if anything it will find it faster

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:22 pm

lister007 wrote:If i convert this, lets say there is no damage to the files will premiere still be able to find the clips in the same way? Just had some trouble with that already, cos if the tree changes then premeire wont find my files and its much harder to convert back.
Cheers for your help!

formatting doesn't change anything except how the data is stored on the drive itself...the 1s and 0s (ok there is more to that but i dun want to explain it). as a user, you don't see any change at all. there are key differences but, to you, who obviously doesn't have a whole lot of computer knowledge (not saying that to be mean or anything), you wont notice anything. if the drive letter changes again like in the other post, just change it back like i told you.

as for converting the drive to NTFS, yes you can convert it, but be careful that nothing will work 100% so there is a slim chance the conversion will "screw up".

Pwolf

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:32 am

Cool cheers, just making sure cos never needed to do it before cos always formated before put files on the drive.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:17 pm

Pwolf wrote:as for converting the drive to NTFS, yes you can convert it, but be careful that nothing will work 100% so there is a slim chance the conversion will "screw up".

Especially if the power goes out while you're doing it. Then you're boned.