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re: FAT32 or NTFS???
Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(213 messages posted)
Yes, although NTFS is generally slightly better at everything than is FAT32, for
a spare home computer with a small drive it's probably not worth making the change
unless you have a specific reason to do so.
One such reason might be that you have a recurring need to copy large amounts of
data from the hard drive to another drive, especially if this takes the form of copying
many small files to a USB flash drive or similar (as it might if you were editing
a digital photo collection, for example). In this case you would gain a spectacular
improvement in read/write speeds if both drives are formatted with NTFS.
On Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 9:16 am, Thomas wrote:
>I am currently running Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 on a Pentium 2.4 GH computer
with
>a 20 GB HD. I recently found out that the hard drive was formatted FAT32. Should
>I convert to NTFS? Is there any advantage to this considering my small hard drive
>size? Also, this is a spare computer at home. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>Thanks in advance.
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- FAT32 or NTFS??? (Thomas: Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 10:16 am)
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