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i n v i s i b l e
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NTFS and FAT32 on the same drive
Just a quick question - How wise (or unwise, as it were) is it to have a drive booting into XP from FAT32 with an NTFS partition for storing data and whatnot?
In the past, I've managed to seriously screw up a drive playing around with this, but that was mainly because I was playing around with the boot flags.
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Ominous Wanderer
Tech Admin
In general, XP seems to be happier and runs a bit more efficiently on NTFS. FAT32 is a little lighter, but less secure and less fault tolerant in general. Additionally, certain features rely solely on NTFS to operate...such as encrypted files, large file support, and the full file indexing service.
However, there really isn't anything physically wrong with running two different parition types on one drive. Heck, I'm running 2 NTFS, a FAT32, 2 Linux Ext3, and a Linux swap parition on a single drive. It works just fine.
EDIT: Oh, a FAT32 boot and NTFS data drive...that should work. One of my roommates ran his computer that way for a while. Don't see why you wouldn't want to make the bootable parition into NTFS though.
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i n v i s i b l e
Tech Admin
Yeah, the 4GB filesize limit is the reason I wanted to change. It's the first time I've ever needed it; to rip an ISO of a dual layer DVD disc.
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