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Originally posted by jaguar
If oyu have amix of NTFS/fat32 is is awful, butpure fat32 on all drives its fine
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Been doing NT before there was FAT32. Let's get one thing straight right off. FAT32 was a last minute kludge created because Windows 9x would not die. It suffers from problems created in FAT12 and FAT16. NTFS tends to be faster in most applications, is so much more stable (and so SCANDISK is not required), has numerous redundancies, and for some reason even keeps correcting problems (without any intervention on my part) on a 4 Gig disk is dying a slow, horrible death.
The problem is that tony had ME. He is not the first to deal with this new Windows 9x series to Windows NT series upgrade. It is made more complex by the few kludge hardware designs that were optimized only for Win 9x.
For example, to use any NT systems on some Toshiba laptops only two years ago, you first had to upgrade the BIOS. One must visit they web support to learn about that problem.
We routinely assume that a processor that runs Windows 9x will also run other OSes. But Windows 9x uses less functions. For example, it uses none of the protection rings. Is that part of the processor functional? Most likely yes, but the point remains that Windows NT OSes require functions never 'tested' by a Windows 9x system. How functional is all that hardware?
Bottom line - get rid of FAT if not required. NTFS is the upgrade of the upgrade (HPFS) from FATxx.
Classic FAT problem - while writing to a disk, power is lost. What happens. To an NTFS filesystem, the new data is lost and drive data remains intact. To a FAT file system, the new data and the old disk data are both lost. What happens if that was the registry or a directory index? Too bad. Those are just some of the reasons why those with Windows 9x suffer failures. How many recognized the Windows 9x system that no longer booted as a FAT32 problem? How many even knew of this glaring FAT problem?
I have numerous systems with NTFS and a small FAT partition. No problem except on one drive that is failing. I can't write to the FAT partition. The NTFS partition just gets so slow to access as NTFS uses tricks to recover the data. Avoid FAT filesystems.