hfly
Apr 11, 04, 5:28 pm
I recently bought an external hard drive that runs in FAT32, I have been having some problems and read up on it on the net, the suggestion seems to be to make it NTFS. Are there any downsides to this? Anyone know?
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cordelli
Apr 11, 04, 7:30 pm
If you boot from DOS because of a problem or something, you won't be able to access the drive unless you get one of the reader files on the boot disk. That's about the only downside I can think of, and because there easy ways around it, it's not an issue.
jfe
Apr 11, 04, 7:56 pm
There are utilites that allow you to see an NTFS disk from DOS, but usually you have to pay for them :(
NTFS will improve your performance also, so I would definetely change, but do a backup before you do ;)
NTFS will improve your performance also, so I would definetely change, but do a backup before you do ;)
cordelli
Apr 11, 04, 10:31 pm
http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm
has a free product that creates bootable floppies that can read NTFS
has a free product that creates bootable floppies that can read NTFS
Quattro
Apr 12, 04, 5:19 pm
If you share the drive with a MAC it will not be able to read the NTFS drive. If no MAC or DOS in the picture go ahead with the NTFS.
Dave_C
Apr 12, 04, 5:47 pm
If you share the drive with a MAC it will not be able to read the NTFS drive. If no MAC or DOS in the picture go ahead with the NTFS.
MacOS X 10.3 can read NTFS formatted disks, with the following caveats; here is the KB article (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75320) from apple.com about it.
MacOS X 10.3 can read NTFS formatted disks, with the following caveats; here is the KB article (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75320) from apple.com about it.
Quattro
Apr 12, 04, 6:52 pm
Read only in 10.3.3 is a pretty large caveat in my book..... :)