NeonGenesis Share Posted September 20, 2002 Originally posted by xStainDx No, That is incorrect, sending files across your network, will not have any problem. the problem only lives on 9x/ME IF its a physical drive and/or partition in THE SAME system, the 9x/ME parition will NOT see the NTFS Volume. Sending Files over a network is possible. Alright, excellent, thank you for your help. Now I'm off to go convert to NTFS. Link to post Share on other sites
xWeston Share Posted September 20, 2002 Click this link for info about converting. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=81 It shouldnt affect your game performance at all. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/faqs.html search there for ntfs. Link to post Share on other sites
Marduk Share Posted September 20, 2002 cool thanks :) I may convert tonight perhaps. Link to post Share on other sites
AgEnTsMiTh Share Posted September 20, 2002 NTSF All the way Security features Better compression Faster and just smart to do. Only reason you would want to debate this is if you were dual booting with win 98. ME is not even a question because it sucked. But even then if you were dual booting with win 98 all you would have to do is install it with FAT16 and you would be able to dual boot with 2000 or XP. If you use FAT32 with 98, it will not be compatiable. Anyone who says NTSF degrades gaming preformance does not know what they are talking about or have an older then dirt video card. Use NTSF its the ONLY structure you should use. Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Share Posted September 20, 2002 Originally posted by AgEnTsMiTh NTSF All the way Security features Better compression Faster and just smart to do. Only reason you would want to debate this is if you were dual booting with win 98. ME is not even a question because it sucked. But even then if you were dual booting with win 98 all you would have to do is install it with FAT16 and you would be able to dual boot with 2000 or XP. If you use FAT32 with 98, it will not be compatiable. Anyone who says NTSF degrades gaming preformance does not know what they are talking about or have an older then dirt video card. Use NTSF its the ONLY structure you should use. Feeling a bit dislesic? :p NTFS** ;) Link to post Share on other sites
azazel- Share Posted September 20, 2002 Neither. Format your disk into as many Fat16 partitions as you can. Link to post Share on other sites
freeza Share Posted September 20, 2002 once you go NTFS you won't ever go back! Link to post Share on other sites
bigmoose Share Posted September 20, 2002 Originally posted by azazel- Neither. Format your disk into as many Fat16 partitions as you can. wonty work on my 100giggeR! Link to post Share on other sites
MulletRobZ Share Posted September 20, 2002 NTFS is recommended and if you're using a Maxtor drive (40GB+) , then you can only use NTFS when installing W2K or WXP. Link to post Share on other sites
cp6un Share Posted September 21, 2002 If you use a decent dual boot program like Acronis OS Selector, then you won't have any problems dual-booting Win9x/WinXP using NTFS... Link to post Share on other sites
Nick198614 Share Posted September 21, 2002 Is there any easy way to change from FAT32 to NTFS without reseting Windows XP? Link to post Share on other sites
Stingray Share Posted September 21, 2002 Using Partition Magic 7.0, for example. Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Share Posted September 21, 2002 Originally posted by Nick198614 Is there any easy way to change from FAT32 to NTFS without reseting Windows XP? Start > Run > CMD.exe Convert (Drive Letter) /FS:NTFS Link to post Share on other sites
H1REN Share Posted September 22, 2002 FAT32 is good if you have slower :( hard drive i had 5400 rpm 20 gig and i installed windows on NTFS. it was slower then FAT32 on that hd. Hiren. Link to post Share on other sites
Gambito Share Posted September 22, 2002 any real review on the regard please, not just opinions? Link to post Share on other sites
DigitalFreedom Share Posted September 22, 2002 jw, if i ever need to, how can i get back to fat32 just incase, lets say,... i wanna go back to win 98 for sum strange resson, can i go from ntfs to fat32, using cmd, and not partion magic as its not supported in win.net:ninja: Link to post Share on other sites
bigmoose Share Posted September 23, 2002 Originally posted by Gambito any real review on the regard please, not just opinions? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...q=fat32+vs+ntfs GOOGLE is your FRIEND Link to post Share on other sites
neolander Share Posted October 3, 2002 how many of you using the winxp with ntfs format? currently i am using the winxp in C: with fat32 and win98 with fat32 in D:....... if i wanna convert the fat32, will i corrupt the win98 in D: ? what are the advantages if i use the ntfs format? thanks Link to post Share on other sites
Selecta Share Posted October 3, 2002 i use at home ntfs, at first (win98,dos,winme,win95 and winxp) i used fat32 but i've converted my partitions with partionmagic into ntfs, and its faster than fat32 and more stable! Link to post Share on other sites
Xahid Share Posted October 3, 2002 yea, u don't need to convert ur C: partition into NTFS, if you did, then you can't get access to win98. if you want to use both O'S, then C: => Win 98 @ FAT32 D: => Win XP @ NTFS Link to post Share on other sites
neolander Share Posted October 3, 2002 thanks...so many valuable advices.......any precaution should i take before i convert them to ntfs? Link to post Share on other sites
Xahid Share Posted October 3, 2002 BackUp or use Partition Magic 8, PM8 will make your task easier. Link to post Share on other sites
neolander Share Posted October 3, 2002 how abt the games running under ntfs format? Link to post Share on other sites
Xahid Share Posted October 3, 2002 Everything will work fine and smooth.... Link to post Share on other sites
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