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Let me add a little confusion to this....
I have used NT 4.0 for almost two years and also have not had disk
corruption problems as I have seen on my Win9x computers. However, I run a
FAT32 driver and have a dual boot (FAT16 boot partition) on my NT system
primarily so I can test programs running NT and Win9x on the same machine
plus make boot to DOS easy so my Ghost backup will work. Ghost will backup
NTFS as well as FAT16 and FAT32 but you are unable to restore individual
files from a NTFS backup image. So, for me the benefits of FAT32 outweigh
the benefits of NTFS.
~Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Fritz <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
To: Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, July 05, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: NTFS vs FAT32
> One advantage of NTFS over FAT32 is reliability, NTFS is much more
> reliable and disk repair applications seldom need to be run on an
> NTFS system.
True. I've never had to run any kind of disk-fixer in 2.5 years of
running NT. The system almost never crashes, which certainly helps,
but even in the rare cases where I've had to kill the power without
shutting down gracefully, it comes back up with no problems. You
won't see that on Win9x, and I suspect FAT32 is the same.
> With NTFS you can create dynamic disk arrangements to group
> multiple hard drives into one large drive.
? Do you mean you can logically group multiple partitions (on one
physical HD or on several) under one partition? So e.g. if you have
a huge disk that is broken up into C:, D:, E:, etc for file-system
performance reasons, and another disk with G: and H: partitions, you
could logically arrange them all under C:, so e.g. a directory under
G: could be accessed as C:\Gdrive\foo ?
That's the way Unix has always done it, and I strongly prefer it.
These goofy drive letters "drive" me crazy. Can you point me to some
info on how to do it?
Gary
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