Hey spud, do you have any other drives besides your local C: disk converted to NTFS? (Such as external, or D: drives on PC)
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Hey spud, do you have any other drives besides your local C: disk converted to NTFS? (Such as external, or D: drives on PC)
i have a 320 and a 1Tb in my main rig both NTFS. i have a 20G in the folding rig NTFS. the ibm laptop is also NTFS. its running an open tibia sever. my work laptop is also 120G NTFS. i just checked my 80G ext 3.5 and its NTFS. and the 80 G sata 2.5 external is also NTFS as is the 60 G 2.5 external..... lol, everything runs XP pro except my main rig which is Vista ultimate 64bit.
couldnt be bothered to fire up my proliant 1600 server but i think the scsi drives in it are also NTFS .
i have several 1,2 and 4 gig usb sticks that i keep Fat 32 so i can use them in the PS2
and of course the 160G in the PS2 is PS2 format...lol.
that what you were after? lol
FAT 32 doesnt have the size limit some people think it has. the limit was with the windows formating prog. M$ limited it to a smaller size as that was all that was around at the time......
Wow spud, that is a motherload! If that's not a ringing endorement for a certain file system, I don't know what is.
That's mostly what I meant though, except that I also have a partitioned [D:] drive within the main disk that contains backed up images of said main disk [C:]. That too is FAT32(did I just rhyme?), and was wondering if I should convert it as well? Or will it not affect anything if I leave it as is?
what OS are you running? i would have thought XP and Vista would have used NTFS as a std install?
Restoring a backup image to a partition normally reverts its filesystem to that which was in use when the backup was made. So if you ever need to revive one of those backups then your main partition will go back to being FAT32 again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devil Z
Regardless of that, I advise you to use NTFS for all your PC-only HDDs, and to do it consistently for all their partitions. I'm not sure if a mix and match of FAT32 and NTFS on the same HDD is even allowed.
I further advise you to NEVER have the backup images of a partition stored on the same physical HDD as the original partition. If anything physical happens to that partition, it most likely will prevent access to the backups as well, leaving you completely screwed.
Backup of important data should always be made to a different physical device, not just to a different partition of the same unit.
Best regards: dlanor
I'm running Windows XP Home SP2 on a PC I bought back in 2002. You would think the file systems were formatted to NTFS, but unfortunately, mine were not. Both my C: and D: drives are FAT32. :crazy:Quote:
Originally Posted by spud42
I would normally agree with you on this one, but I just checked my sister's HP laptop she got in 2006 (also running WinXP, with SP3) and seen that her C: local drive is NTFS, but the D: backup drive is FAT32. This is all on the same internal HDD btw. Thus my confusion mounts...Quote:
Regardless of that, I advise you to use NTFS for all your PC-only HDDs, and to do it consistently for all their partitions. I'm not sure if a mix and match of FAT32 and NTFS on the same HDD is even allowed.
Which is why.....Quote:
I further advise you to NEVER have the backup images of a partition stored on the same physical HDD as the original partition. If anything physical happens to that partition, it most likely will prevent access to the backups as well, leaving you completely screwed.
.....I am currently looking into freeware backup applications atm. The program that came originally installed on my PC, Drive Image SE, currently is not working properly. It claims I don't have enough space on my backup partition [D:] and wants to make more space available to create said backup. But I'd rather place the backup on an external hard drive that I have near my PC, echoing your previous statements.Quote:
Backup of important data should always be made to a different physical device, not just to a different partition of the same unit.
So far I think I'm going with Macrium Reflect Free Edition to get the job done for now, unless you know of better freeware solutions?
not sure of any free programmes as i dont use any. to be totally professional about backups, and seeing as i used to be a server enginer for Compaq/HP, the best practise method is to have multiple backups of essential files and have at least one of the most recent copies stored offsite. its no good having a backup only to have your house burn down and take the computer and all backups with it!! but define what you mean by backup? it can be as simple as copying all your music,photos and doc's to a few dvd's and storing them at a mates.... to a complete "image" or snapshot of your system. that can be reloaded on a clean drive and have you running again in minutes. depends on your budget and your level of pain... OS and Apps can be reinstalled easy enough , even games. its the emails,mp3's jpegs avi's etc that are the most important.
which reminds me... its time to backup my stuff again..lol wish i could afford a decent tape drive.. but then again a 1Tb drive is only $130 and an enclosure $30 .. then just take it to mums...lol cheap insurance....
I was just looking at backing up my entire hard disk before the conversion in case anything goes wrong. I ended up using the free edition of Macrium Reflect to do this, sending it to an external hard drive. Everything seems good so far, except...
When I went to go and convert to NTFS at the command prompt, I got a message saying that it failed to convert because the drive was in use by another application. Then it asked if I wanted to dismount it. Not knowing what to do, I typed yes and it still failed to convert. In the end, I received another message asking if I wanted to attempt the conversion upon restart. Should I perform it this way instead? Have any of you ever came across these messages before?
Your not trying to convert the drive your currently running your OS on whilst it's running are you? I don't think you can do that you need to do it at the command prompt screen before your OS starts, keep pressing F8 whilst your computer boots or you can convert it to NTFS whilst running your OS from another drive.
NTFS also adds the ability to compress the whole drive to save disk space, the ability to set space Quota's and a indexing service that makes searching for files faster as well as something called a Jet that makes file access quicker but I don't know much about that.
you need to let it do it upon restart. when you say entire backup do you just mean the files? or the entire drive? because as dlanor said. if you restore from a drive image backup it will restore fat 32 as well. which i suppose will put you right back where you started which isnt a bad thing.