Ok i got another question

[duckingzebra]

i have 2 hard drives the one on my signature and a 8 gb hard drive. the 40gb hard drive's file system is NTFS, the 8gb hard drive's file system is FAT32, whats the difference? pro's/con's? o and y isnt my sig showing , lol.

[Yellowhello]

NFFS is supposed to be better for bigger drives (i.e. HDD's) and FAT32 is better for smaller drives (i.e. flash drives, floppies).

At least thats what I heard.

[stinger608]

Actually, FAT32 will support somewhere around 2 terabytes of disk space

Really what it amounts to, is that NTFS is a more reliable file system than FAT32, as can be seen over and over again with the difference between Windows NT and Win 95-98.

If you have a small drive, that you want to install for a second drive, it really doesn't matter which you format the drive to. But, I am to believe that NTFS will allow you to access the contents of the drive just a bit faster.

[duckingzebra]

ok cool, now y isnt my sig showing, lol, i looked through like every setting and i cant figure it out...

[Quakindude]

Differences between the two formats:

NTFS creates logfiles of disk errors so automatic file system repairs can be performed.

NTFS can dynamically detect and remap clusters with bad sectors, preventing those clusters from being used in the future.

NTFS supports disk quota's, allowing you to assign each user account with a set amount of HDD space.

NTFS supports file compression while FAT32 doesn't.

Once you go past 8Gb of HDD space, NTFS is eminently more capable of managing disk clusters and sizes.

NTFS has better security than FAT32 by a long shot.

In Windows XP, the maximum disk partition for FAT32 is 32Gb. It's 16TB for NTFS. You can do a work around for FAT32, but it's a PITA.

FAT32 drives are much more susceptible to disk I/O errors while NTFS not only has less errors, it can recover from errors much better than FAT32.


There's a lot of other pro's to NTFS, but that should be enough to get you on the right track.

[duckingzebra]

quakindude that was verry informative, thats the kind of answers i love, if ur gonna do something, do it 100% thanks a lot quakindude