FAT32 Question

[Dave]

Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?


Thanks,

 

[Don Phillipson]

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> 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]

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" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
>
>
> Thanks,

 

[Bill in Co.]

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.
> --
> Jeff Richards
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
> "Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,

 

[Jeff Richards]

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." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> 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.

 

[philo]

"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
>
>
> 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]

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" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BFD02EB8-EEFD-478B-A953-C4AB21741219@microsoft.com...
>
> > Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32?
>
> FAT32 is reputed less stable than NTFS (which
> Win98 cannot read.)
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
>
>