FAT32 or NTFS??
This is a discussion about FAT32 or NTFS?? in the Windows Software category; I'm not sure should this question be here, but I have heard that FAT32 is faster than NTFS. . . is this true? How I can convert my filesystem from NTFS to FAT32?.
I'm not sure should this question be here, but I have heard that FAT32 is faster than NTFS...is this true? How I can convert my filesystem from NTFS to FAT32?
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Is NTFS faster than FAT32? The jury is out. I find NTFS faster - other say FAT32.
How do you convert from NTFS to FAT32? Reformat the drive.
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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM
SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb
IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)
SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)
Win2K build 2195 Retail (not 120-day eval)
How do you convert from NTFS to FAT32? Reformat the drive.
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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM
SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb
IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)
SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)
Win2K build 2195 Retail (not 120-day eval)
DONT Reformat your drive!
Just go to a dos box and type
convert *:\ fs:ntfs
where * is the drive letter you want to convert.
Just go to a dos box and type
convert *:\ fs:ntfs
where * is the drive letter you want to convert.
Oh dear I really should READ the posts shoudn't I?
OK Sorry you do have to reformat!
OK Sorry you do have to reformat!
Well, that depends on your hard drive...for me NTFS was slower. My HD made much more loading than FAT32. FAT32...I recommend it to gamers. NTFS might be good for a SCSI hard drive, but not an IDE. I have a Western Digital 8 GIG IDE, which runs slow in NTFS, but faster in FAT32. I would not recommend installin NTFS because it is hard to return to FAT32 from Win 2000. I had that problem.
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Windows 2000 Pro owns!
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Windows 2000 Pro owns!
