Guest BeeWee Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 i have upgraded to xp and must have missed the chance to change my file system...so i am still using fat 32. are there any great advantages for me to change to ntfs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Compression - You can compress a NTFS drive to save space. But with the large drives that are avaialble to day it has no use. If your on a small drive then yes this will be a great advantage.NTFS has a HDD limit in the Terabytes - Home user will not have a use for Terabytes.FAT32 has a limit of 32GB meaning you can partiton a drive to the 32GB and then you would have to create another partition(s) for the rest of the drive.Performance - NTFS beats FAT32 - Would you notice a difference? It depends what you do with your computer... Security - NTFS was from NT and 2000 Server and workstation enviroments so securtiy is a must. The home user if you need it go for it. If you do not stay away.Conclusion.NTFS - This is the one to choose, modern PC's now come with 100GB + HDD so NTFS is ideally suited."I should say that if your happy with what you've got then do not change". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VoG™ Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 PowerlessAgree except that the drive size limit for FAT32 is 128 GB http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0107.htmBeeWeeYou can convert your drive to NTFS http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;307881 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 When you install Windows XP if the size of the partiton is over 32GB you are only given the option to format in NTFS.When you are in Windows the same applies, so i've foundl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 changed my other puter with a 20gb harddrive from FAT to NTFS and to be honest never noticed any difference,still glad I did it as it was simple and has caused no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volt Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 i have upgraded to xp and must have missed the chance to change my file system...so i am still using fat 32. are there any great advantages for me to change to ntfs?Give me ntfs or give me death!!But I would never convert fat to ntfs,,the cluster size is way to small.Just do it on your next install,,or use partition magic. :) v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cookie Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Just do it. ;) Start - Run then type cmd and hit enter.Then type Convert C: /fs:ntfs (that's a space between : and /)Click yes to the next few questions and re-boot.Simple. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 OrRun:cmd /k Convert C: /fs:ntfs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volt Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 http://www.ntfs.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BeeWee Posted May 13, 2003 Report Share Posted May 13, 2003 thank you all for your help and advice - i am converted!! :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest natureguy007 Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 Get it right powerless- Performance - NTFS beats FAT32 as may be rue sometimes pcpitstop says the following exactly... One or more partitions are using the NTFS file system. Although this file system offers many good features such as encryption, security, and improved reliability, it is often slower than the FAT32 file system. However, we do not advise switching back to FAT32 just to increase disk performance scores.now what do you have to say about performance beating fat32 always now. more like sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 Well with larger HDD's NTFS is better suited. If you can see a few milliseconds difference in the file access time and transferring large amounts of data then well done...but i for one cannot see a ms difference. (ms? Not even that)Also like i say it depends what you do. For "normal" home use...FAT32 or NTFS will not matter.If you video edit where a few GB or 10's of GB's are transferred then FAT32 will probably be suited but again will you see a difference? Also FAT32 is a little fussy over 32GB...Whereas NTFS can go into it's terrabytes.I've (at most) have transferred 300MB and it took 10 or so seconds...If FAT32 can cut my time down by ummmm...5 seconds huh :P I'm not going to change to 32 because of that.Most modern hard drives will now be partitoned because the drives are so big ( 120, 200, 250GB) So this helps to cut down defragmented files...This also is like an AMD vs INTEL warATI vs Nividia...at the end of the day does it matter?Oh and if you are using ATA 33/66/100/133 it all matters...So just having a FAT32 partitons/drive isn't the only factor...5400 or 7200rpm...PCPITSTOP...Not everyone want performances, they just want to USE there computer...Dualbooting. 2000 and XP can only have the NTFS file system. Luckily an NTFS file system can see a FAT32 file system.But, for example Windows 98 cannot see an NTFS file system. So if you dual boot Win 98 and NTFS to share, swap whatever you want to do with your files FAT32 is the only choice in D/booting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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