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01-10-2003, 09:37 PM
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Win98se to W2K Pro
My pc has a WD 80gig partitioned into 4 drives with FAT32 via Win98se.
If I install W2K, will it format the whole drive to NTFS or just C:? In other words, I would like to keep D, E, and F FAT32. Carl |
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01-10-2003, 09:44 PM
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You can format whatever partition you would like to NTFS, no need to worry about the whole drive being formatted to this.
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01-10-2003, 09:44 PM
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It will give you the option to upgrade to NTFS. Probably the easiest thing to do would be just to go ahead with the upgrade leaving everything as FAT32, then when you're done, go to the command prompt and run
convert C: /fs:ntfs
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01-10-2003, 09:54 PM
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Thanks for the fast replies.
If NTFS can read FAT32, FAT16, etc, is there any reason not to format the whole drive NTFS? Carl |
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01-10-2003, 09:55 PM
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FAT32 cannot read NTFS. |
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01-10-2003, 10:00 PM
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Well, some info about NTFS vs. FAT32:
1) NTFS allows you to use the advanced security features (i.e. restrict files or folders on a user-by-user basis). 2) NTFS is supposed to be more error resistant. 3) NTFS drives may be read only with Win2K/WinXP 4) Fat32 drives can be read by any OS starting from Win95b. If you're only doing a single boot, there's no reason NOT to go with NTFS. The file system is transparent to the programs (only the OS knows/cares what system you use). The main reason to use FAT32 is to dual boot the machine. |
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01-10-2003, 10:45 PM
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Paul,
If you're only doing a single boot, there's no reason NOT to go with NTFS. Thank you! That answered my question. I won't be going with a dual boot system. Carl |
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01-10-2003, 11:31 PM
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Go NTFS all the way then... no reason to keep FAT32.
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01-11-2003, 01:29 AM
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l to add a small thing here - it isn't FAT32 which can't read NTFS as one of the members posted - it's Win9X line which can't read it.
I have a computer and that one has Win98 installed as well - sure on Fat32 and it also has Win2K installed on a second hard drive also FAT32 - it has happen that I had to correct Win2K drive where windows 2000 was installed using NTFS - I hooked it up to the computer and there it went - Win2k FAT32 Reconized this Win2K NTFS Drive without problems and I could repair the jammed part of it. Hpro
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01-11-2003, 03:08 PM
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Interesting, thanks for that bit of info Hpro.
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