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[rfisher]

Xp shows my 20Gb C drive to have 1Gb free space.

If I boot using a Windows 98 floppy and run scandisk it shows C drive as half full.

What's going on there?

The drive is FAT32 format.

[ThePassenger]

In XP do the disk checking thing. It could be XP's got it's knikkers in a knot about something.

[Scraggles]

if using xp, why is it still using fat32 and not ntfs ?

[rfisher]

Scraggles said:

if using xp, why is it still using fat32 and not ntfs ?

My choice as I do things in Dos from time to time and Dos no like NTFS drives.

Is NTFS mucho more fab?

[Neil_Bolton]

rfisher said:

Scraggles said:

if using xp, why is it still using fat32 and not ntfs ?

My choice as I do things in Dos from time to time and Dos no like NTFS drives.

Is NTFS mucho more fab?

It is in a corporate environment as you can't apply security* to files without it.

For home users no real biggy unless you want to start using Encrypted Folders, or keeping other users out of their private folders.


*Edited to add: Proper security

Edited by Neil_Bolton on Thursday 15th March 12:17

[pdV6]

Neil_Bolton said:

For home users no real biggy unless you want to start using Encrypted Folders, or keeping other users out of their private folders.

We all know you're talking about your porn collection, Neil...

[tigger1]

pdV6 said:

Neil_Bolton said:

For home users no real biggy unless you want to start using Encrypted Folders, or keeping other users out of their private folders.

We all know you're talking about your porn collection, Neil...

Isn't there a known issue with XP detecting the correct size of HDDs of 40Gb+? Might be related. Worth checking the website of the HDD manufacturer.

[ThePassenger]

tigger1 said:

pdV6 said:

Neil_Bolton said:

For home users no real biggy unless you want to start using Encrypted Folders, or keeping other users out of their private folders.

We all know you're talking about your porn collection, Neil...

Isn't there a known issue with XP detecting the correct size of HDDs of 40Gb+? Might be related. Worth checking the website of the HDD manufacturer.

Erm... no. Not come across that one although their are issues with FAT32 paritions above 32Gb or so (it should be able to do 60Gb but never does). To be honest I've not really used FAT32 in ages other than the ipod so probably best to ignore me

Having said that, migrating a full drive from FAT32 to NTFS would be a royal pain and take ages whilst it sat there trundling through the file system.

[TheExcession]

ThePassenger said:

migrating a full drive from FAT32 to NTFS would be a royal pain and take ages whilst it sat there trundling through the file system.

Surely not
www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

[Scraggles]

all my drives are ntfs and can use dos very well, it works

biggest bonus is that dvd image files are too big to work on fat32, but work fine on ntfs, try copying a 4.5 GB iso and you will be told u cant

this is dos box afaik ?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

ping www.pistonheads.co.uk

Pinging www.pistonheads.co.uk [195.225.218.139] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=248
Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=248
Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=248
Reply from 195.225.218.139: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=248

Ping statistics for 195.225.218.139:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 19ms

Edited by Scraggles on Thursday 15th March 21:31

[pdV6]

Scraggles said:

all my drives are ntfs and can use dos very well, it works

...

this is dos box afaik ?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

Nah - that's the command-line version of WinXP. "Real" DOS or older versions of Windows won't know what to do with your drive if its NTFS formatted.

[ThePassenger]

TheExcession said:

ThePassenger said:

migrating a full drive from FAT32 to NTFS would be a royal pain and take ages whilst it sat there trundling through the file system.

Surely not
www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Yeah. Very painless, I notice in small print at the bottom is suggests leaving the computer alone whilst the disk light flashes... but doesn't warn you that the more full the drive the longer it'll take.