re: Quick Question on NTFS vs FAT32
Monday, November 6, 2006 at 8:52 pm
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Posted by C K
(6157 messages posted)
The error you are getting if you have enough physical drive space isn't a bug. The
file is to large for the FAT32 file system to save so you get that error (common
cause) and the larger the file, the greater chance of corruption in the old FAT32.
The drive size reporting error bug is in the FDISK/Format commands prior to Win
ME but even then there is a limitation which will remain in the FAT32 FS. MS is
not going to do a major rewrite of the old FS to overcome it and it wouldn't be backward
compatible either. For very large files, you really have no choice but to format
NTFS for best compatibility. That won't help if you have to crossplatform to MAC
or Win 9x however so it all depends on what you are working with... :-(
On Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 4:18 am, Cpuwhiz11 wrote:
>The drivespace bug is what I have heard called a bug that incorrectly displays that
>amount of free space of a hard drive. for instance I have a 300gb hard drive (279
>in reality) and it says I have 37.1 gb left, yet I get "not enough free space" errors,
>when I try to copy large file on it (under 4gb). I hope that awnsers your question,
>any suggestions would be appreciated.
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