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Dave
October 4th 08, 06:08 PM
Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
Thanks,
Don Phillipson[_5_]
October 4th 08, 08:35 PM
"Dave" > wrote in message
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> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
FAT32 is reputed less stable than NTFS (which
Win98 cannot read.)
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Jeff Richards
October 4th 08, 09:20 PM
http://www.project9.com/fat32/ under compatibility. There is no simple way
to convert back from FAT32 to FAT.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Dave" > wrote in message
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> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
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> Thanks,
Bill in Co.
October 4th 08, 09:34 PM
Why would anybody want to convert from FAT32 to FAT16?
Jeff Richards wrote:
> http://www.project9.com/fat32/ under compatibility. There is no simple way
> to convert back from FAT32 to FAT.
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> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> "Dave" > wrote in message
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>> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
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>> Thanks,
Jeff Richards
October 4th 08, 09:45 PM
If it turns out that there are any compatibility issues such as the ones
listed under compatibility at the site I mentioned.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Bill in Co." > wrote in message
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> Why would anybody want to convert from FAT32 to FAT16?
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> Jeff Richards wrote:
>> http://www.project9.com/fat32/ under compatibility. There is no simple
>> way
>> to convert back from FAT32 to FAT.
philo
October 5th 08, 03:40 AM
"Dave" > wrote in message
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> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
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> Thanks,
If you have win98 installed on a fat16 partition
and your harddrive is 2 gigs or less, I'd just leave it....
but converting to fat32 should be fine.
However if your drive is larger than 2 gigs and you want to make larger
partitions,
then yes, I'd advise using fat32
or course you'd have to start over from scratch or use a 3rd party utility
such as partition magic.
Either way, back up your data first!
Dan
October 5th 08, 06:48 AM
I thought FAT32 just had less native security than NTFS and not less stability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
"Don Phillipson" wrote:
> "Dave" > wrote in message
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> > Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
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> FAT32 is reputed less stable than NTFS (which
> Win98 cannot read.)
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
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