whats better about ntfs?
XP says that its better if you have a HDD 40 gigs or more.whats better about ntfs?
vampireuk said:convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs
Do that from a command prompt (inside of XP--I BELIEVE it prompts you to reboot and it does it then).
Then a defrag after cant hurt either
There is too much to list really
More robust
Better security
< insert about a million more >
Trotterwatch said:If you convert using the convert command in XP though I believe you end up with NTFS but with a horrible cluster size which decreases efficiency and increases defragmentation.
liteuser said:heres how i see it
get xp
keep your old os bonus
get a new hard drive add it bonus
or install without formating keep your old os bonus
restore cd if you have one still works on old os bonus
fat32 makeing both Xp and 9x compatable bonus
amounts to a very stable and crash resistant PC
Eagle said:Thank you liteuser, I am aware of the multi OS complications I just havent had much experience converting from FAT to NTFS. Alpha I totally agree, but my brother is a hard head and now he has already bought the upgrade.
I'm sorry to counter your believings, Trotterwatch, but with the old FAT32, i had clusters of 32KB each one. Now each one is 512 bytes only!!!
In Windows 2000, CONVERT handled this problem by forcing an NTFS cluster size of 512 bytes, which resulted in reduced performance and increased disk fragmentation. In Windows XP, CONVERT chooses the best cluster size (4K is the ideal).
To maximize NTFS performance, Windows XP FORMAT and the new OFORMAT tool format a new file system as FAT or FAT32, ensuring that the data clusters are aligned on at least a 4K boundary and that the FAT32 cluster size is 4K or larger.