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re: Quick Question on NTFS vs FAT32 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 2:55 pm Posted by Steve (1 messages posted) Windows ME can't read ntfs file system on a External Drive. When a XP Computer, and a ME are Networked though they can read the Files on a ntfs Drive. What is a Drive Space Bug? On Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 4:29 am, Cpuwhiz11 wrote: >Ok heres the deal, if I convert my external hard drive (300 GB) to NTFS, will my >windows ME with its FAT32 hard drive (40gb) still work with it? or will I have to >convert both? Also will converting to NTFS fix the drivespace bug ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Quick Question on NTFS vs FAT32 Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 2:59 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1098 messages posted) You can convert any drive to FAT32 (Win9x/ME) or NTFS (NT - Win2k/XP). You can split your 300GB drive into 3 seperate drives using Fdisk or Partition Magic. That way you can have a dual boot or even a triple boot system. "Also will converting to NTFS fix the drivespace bug ?" I don't know what your drivespace bug is. You wouldn't need to use drivespace with a 300GB drive, thats pretty big. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Quick Question on NTFS vs FAT32 Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 4:18 am Posted by Cpuwhiz11 (8 messages posted) 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Quick Question on NTFS vs FAT32 Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 7:41 am Posted by Ricer46 (20453 messages posted) You should stay away from Drivespace anyway. It's a disaster waiting to happen. Understand what it does and you should understand the risk. Besides that, it really provides very little benefit for most files. It's helpful if you have a huge number of very small files. Consider the old saying about 1 rotten apple spoiling the barrel. It only takes one corrupt file to lose every file in a drivespace file. 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Quick Question on NTFS vs FAT32 Monday, November 6, 2006 at 8:52 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum