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  • Difference between NTFS and FAT32?

    From Ovid@Ovid@Epigram.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Monday, July 14, 2003 12:04:11
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    Can someone explain in LAYMAN'S terms the difference between these two?
    TIA
    -O



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  • From Hawk@jedi001@netscape.net to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 07:42:01
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    "Ovid" <Ovid@Epigram.com> wrote:
    Can someone explain in LAYMAN'S terms the difference between these two?
    TIA
    -O


    NTFS gooooood ... FAT32 baaaaaad


    Sorry...couldn't resist ;)






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  • From Hawk@jedi001@netscape.net to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 08:07:24
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    "Ovid" <Ovid@Epigram.com> wrote in message news:3f12e1f9$0$50101$45beb828@newscene.com...
    Can someone explain in LAYMAN'S terms the difference between these two?
    TIA
    -O



    Try this...

    http://windows.about.com/library/weekly/aa001231a.htm




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  • From Ovid@Ovid@Epigram.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:46:23
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    Good article(s). Thanks, Hawk. I assume you have had fewer problems with NTFS?
    Thanks, again.
    -O


    "Hawk" <jedi001@netscape.net> wrote in message news:vh7v3patp1526@corp.supernews.com...

    "Ovid" <Ovid@Epigram.com> wrote in message news:3f12e1f9$0$50101$45beb828@newscene.com...
    Can someone explain in LAYMAN'S terms the difference between these two?
    TIA
    -O



    Try this...

    http://windows.about.com/library/weekly/aa001231a.htm






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  • From Hawk@jedi001@netscape.net to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 22:18:42
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    "Ovid" <Ovid@Epigram.com> wrote:
    Good article(s). Thanks, Hawk. I assume you have had fewer problems with NTFS?
    Thanks, again.
    -O

    For me NTFS is a necessity. I deal with a lot of large files working with video...and FAT32 just isn't up to the job. It takes over 13G of hard disk space for a single hour of raw footage dumped from a Mini-DV camera. FAT32 can't handle individual files over 4G.

    Also, my main PC has three 80G drives...and the amount of slack space you'd
    end up with using FAT on partitions of that size would be horrible. I
    believe that you'd be stuck with 32k clusters under FAT32...in other words a
    1k file still takes up 32k of space on the disk. NTFS allow you to use much smaller cluster sizes on big partitions (4k on anything over 2G).

    I can honestly say that I've never had any problem or issue with NTFS and
    I'd never go back to using FAT of any kind for any reason.

    Good Luck,




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  • From Mika@mika.salonen@koti.soon.fi to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 16:40:17
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    "Ovid" <Ovid@Epigram.com> wrote in message news:3f12e1f9$0$50101$45beb828@newscene.com...
    Can someone explain in LAYMAN'S terms the difference
    between these two?
    TIA
    -O

    I think one difference is that FAT32 uses local time but NTFS uses UTC.

    Could someone test this on Windows 2000/XP and NTFS, please?

    1. Select the timezone "GMT +2 Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn"
    from Windows 2000/XP which runs on NTFS filesystem.

    2. Set the Windows clock to time 2003-12-31 10:00 AM.

    3. Browse to your NTFS drive and create a new text file.

    4. Set clock back to currect time and don't change the
    timezone (GMT +2 Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn).

    5. Is the file created at 10:00 AM or 09:00 AM?

    Thanks a lot,
    Mika

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