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07-29-2008
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| Vista Home Premuim 32bit | Changing from FAT32 to NTFS Hi: I have an extenal WD passport drive. I cannot download files larger than 4GB because it is based on FAT32. What is the down side of changing it to NTFS? Thanks. |
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07-29-2008
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| Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... | Re: Changing from FAT32 to NTFS Hi, flyingfox100, and welcome to the forums. Honestly, not a lot - files on NTFS systems are more secure, but a small system performance (and I mean *extremely* small) hit is that it writes extra information about the file for security purposes when it writes the file. The Last accessed time can be a small PITA on external drives because files that get 'touched' a lot will constantly be getting updated. Finally, If you take the drive to a machine running an older version of Windows (think 9x) then you may not be able to read the drive. |
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07-29-2008
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| Vista Business/Home Premium/Ultimate x64/Server 2008 X64 | Re: Changing from FAT32 to NTFS What he said. And I would like to add that I always reformat externals to NTFS. Even flash drives. They just work better. |
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07-29-2008
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| Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... | Re: Changing from FAT32 to NTFS Thanks :P And what *he* said after. |
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