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hessan
July 16th, 2002, 17:23
hi
i just got a new pc
i put the win xp cd so it boots off of it
it formated my pc and gave it a ntfs partition
is this bet ter or fat32 ?
should i reformat and use fdisk for fat32 ??
and i have an 80gig hard
Bruce
July 16th, 2002, 17:53
NTFS is much better. It's more secure and also supports large drives.

FAT32 doesn't support anyting about 30 gigs.
Rick
July 16th, 2002, 21:01
Originally posted by Bruce
NTFS is much better. It's more secure and also supports large drives.

FAT32 doesn't support anyting about 30 gigs.

That's FAT16... FAT32 does have support for large disks.

NTFS is a better and cleaner format, but if you run any of the 9X os's, they won't be able to access an NTFS partition
idoru
July 17th, 2002, 14:52
i have never run win98/fat32 on anything larger than 60 ggs...

i think thats the limit for fat32 though...

stick with ntfs though, it's been more stable in my experiences with it.
Rick
July 17th, 2002, 19:12
My 80 gig is a single FAT32 partition (triple boot system, Linux, win98SE and XP Pro... I use FAT32 because all of the OS's can access it)... Not sure what the limit actually is, and I'm too lazy to look it up, but it's decidedly larger than 30 or 60 gigs
stu
July 17th, 2002, 19:21
I think I heard that the max partition size for fat32 is 128GB... not too sure, but it could be more..
trenzterra
July 18th, 2002, 07:31
Originally posted by Rick


That's FAT16... FAT32 does have support for large disks.

NTFS is a better and cleaner format, but if you run any of the 9X os's, they won't be able to access an NTFS partition no


32GB== FAT32


FAT 16 around 2GB.
Rick
July 18th, 2002, 08:02
OK, I looked it up...
FAT16 max partition size = 2047 megs (2 gigabytes - 32kbyte clusters)
FAT32 max partition size = 2048 gigs (2 terabytes - 32kbyte clusters)
_Street_Fighter
July 18th, 2002, 09:59
Quoted from http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/42/1/
Using the FAT32 system under DOS 7 and Windows 95 OSR2, max partition size is kicked up to 2 TB (2 TB = 2048 GB = 2,097,152 MB = 2,147,483,648 KB = 2,199,023,255,552 bytes).


Quoted from http://www.raidtoolbox.com/forum/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=1&Topic=8
Under Windows 2000 the maximum file size and maximum partition size are as follows:

File Systems///Max Partition Size///Max File Size
FAT__________ 4 Gig___________4 Gig
FAT 32________32 Gig__________4 Gig
NTFS_________16 Exabytes_____16 Exabytes

Note: 16 Exabytes equals 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes [/B]

so I guess fat32 only goes up to 32 gig in windows 2000... and upto 2TB in other systems...

- SF