Badger Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 I do not know if I have got the correct forum,but was wondering if anyone can tell me if it is ok to have Fat 32 on the primary drive © and to have NTFS on the 2nd HDD . Can anyone tell me the pro's and con's of this. Thanks. This is my first post so hope it is ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 yes as long as you are reading off the NTFS drive and onto the FAT32 drive, you should be fine. Just remember to install the OS onto the NTFS partition , because if you simply install an OS onto the FAT32 of your primary HDD, you won't be able to see/write to your NTFS partition on your secondary HDD.cons are that FAT drive cant see NTFS but NTFS can see a FAT drive so you can only write/see one way.welcome to the forum Badger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Thank you for your reply. My OS which is xp Home is on my primary Hard drive which is C and which is Fat 32. I have installed a second Hard drive a Seagate I went to their site and the wizard formatted the drive as NTSF (I did not get a choice) Is this ok ? or ,from your reply will I not be able to use it for data and backups etc. Will I have to convert it to Fat 32 for it all to work together.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 why not change your c drive to NTFS it very simple with xp,I have done it even with a 20gb drive with no probs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 i am currently running with 3 40gb hdd's, two are ntfs and one is fat32. The main drive is ntfs and can read all three hdds. You should have not problems running with one as ntfs and one as fat32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 yeah but his main drive is FAT32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 it shouldnt make any difference with XP as it can see both hdds.The difference will only apply if running 98 or earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 A useful NTFS explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 And for fat 32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Thanks for your replys. I seem to have got two conflicting answers!I would like to change my C drive to NTFS but I am very wary. Everything is working at present and I hate to temp providence. You know what they say "if it isn't broken...." Can you give me any reassurane? Thanks. I see I have been given a Male persona!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 in my experience (and i may be wrong) if you have a fat32 and an NTFS drive working together with XP there will be no problems. It shouldnt matter which file system your os is on. If however you are running 98, it will only be able to see the fat32 partitions and not the ntfs as it simply cannot read an NTFS file system.Partition magic 8.0 is THE utility to get hold of if you want to easily convert from NTFS to FAT or from FAT to NTFS.With regards to the if it aint broke question, the choice is entirely yours, there is no real performance advantage to be gained from converting unless you are trying to create some extremely large files (4gb or above) as FAT32 can only cope with 4gb file sizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 How's that?according to your details you have unspecified sex. Now how do you spell Hermaphrodite? :D Welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 How's that?according to your details you have unspecified sex. Now how do you spell Hermaphrodite? :D Welcomeellas said "his main drive" doug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Ah so Dr. Watson. Had me going for a bit though. Mind was boggling with curiosity. :DWas ellas guessing or does he know what we don't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 ellas is stuck in the 17th century and thinks that all women are still in the kitchen and therefore cant be using computers!!Of course, i myself wouldnt contemplate subscribing to this view! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 ellas is stuck in the 17th century and thinks that all women are still in the kitchen and therefore cant be using computers!!Of course, i myself wouldnt contemplate subscribing to this view!I should hope not :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 going back to the original topic.... This should make things a little clearer!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Thanks for all your help. Do I mark this as resolved,and if so how? Thanks again. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 will do it for you badger - welcome to the forum by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 I see I have been given a Male persona!!I'm a girl. PM me and we'll talk stuff. :D :rolleyes: Welcome, badger. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Hello Mooon, If your message was for me, I cannot understand it. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted January 4, 2004 Report Share Posted January 4, 2004 Hello Mooon, If your message was for me, I cannot understand it. Sorry.dont worry badger....no one understands the wingeing old aussie coot!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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