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FAT32 to NTFS

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  • 29-05-2004 12:06am
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    Dempsey
    Registered Users Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭


    I went from 98SE to 2k Pro, by upgrading, and coverted from FAT32 to NTFS. I heard somewhere that the cluster sizes by going from FAT32 to NTFS is bigger making the disk space usage ineffecient compared to reformatting the drive to NTFS. Is this true, i dont particulary feel like reformatting the drive and installing stuff again(laziness), but I would do it if in this scenario a complete reformatting would be much better.


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    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    well i cant answer your question but i will say one thing i found out recently
    while editing a dvd i found out fat32 has a 4 gb size limit on files, so i had to save the file to my ntfs partition
    so theres one reason to use nrfs over fat32


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    Dempsey
    Registered Users Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Im using NTFS, but what I heard was that if ya upgrade the from FAT32 to NTFS the cluster sizes are different from formatting to NTFS. I was wondering about the truth in that and what difference in performance is there because of this


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