Poll: What F/S do you like the best?

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 18, 2002, 04:11 AM

What is your favorite File System? And Why

Yeti · Jul 18, 2002, 04:15 AM

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Frodo301 · Jul 18, 2002, 04:41 AM

right now I'm using Fat 32 since I have a dual boot setup. I just cannot seem to wein my wife off Win 98se. Although we all have seperate computers mine gets used the most due to I tweak the hell out of it to make it faster. My wife wants stability for general use but when she games my computer ends up being the one she picks.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 18, 2002, 05:05 AM

I just coverted to NTFS about a week ago. It's somewhat faster then FAT32 but if it gets to defraged then your in trouble. Plus i sont liket he fact that i cant access it from it dos when my crashed (whinch unfourtnely was today) i didnt have a chance to get any files that would allow me to view or modify from dos. Despite that i like it and seems stable.

DallasStar · Jul 18, 2002, 05:29 AM

NTFS is the best IMO.

Reasons:

NTFS constantly "tricks" the harddrive into thinking that it is full. This way, when files are added, they don't fragment up the harddrive as much as they would with something like Fat32. Also, NTFS just seems much faster and definitely more stable. Those who claim that NTFS defrags more than Fat32 have been smokin something strange and whacky

Oh yeah, for those that have systems that "slow down over time", NTFS fixes that. It doesn't happen with NTFS

.

It is annoying that it is not accessible with DOS, but it can easily be fixed by using a program such as NTFSdos or the driver that Zardon dug up (see "tweaks" forum).

NTFS is also much more future proof because it can handle larger harddisks than Fat32. Also, NTFS has much more "control" over all the files. With Fat32, there are just file allocation tables and the files are just "there". (I can't get into specifics because that would require too much explaining).

DallasStar · Jul 18, 2002, 05:32 AM

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Originally posted by Sourcer_2002
I just coverted to NTFS about a week ago. It's somewhat faster then FAT32 but if it gets to defraged then your in trouble. Plus i sont liket he fact that i cant access it from it dos when my crashed (whinch unfourtnely was today) i didnt have a chance to get any files that would allow me to view or modify from dos. Despite that i like it and seems stable.

using your windows xp cd, you have to start the setup and it will give you an option to go and repair files. once you have selected that option, you will have full access to add/delete/read files on your ntfs partition. you can't run any of the files, but if you have backups, you don't really need to

. (also, you can use ntfsdos, but that costs money)

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 18, 2002, 08:07 AM

Ok couple of guestions! The reason i had to format was because i when restarted my comp i went to bios and i changed somthin and i couldnt get any video when i try to reboot. SO there fore i cleared my CMOS well when i got back up to the logon screen which i dont really see bcause i auto log on. But when i would get the GUI all up and running but before i could do anything it logged my off and gave me the log inscreen. And when i clicked on mt name to log it go and then imdetailly log me off. The when i would try to get into Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Networking i would get this error that ati2dvaa.dll has failed or somthin like that. i fixed (

by formatting

) but i still dont what caused it any ideas?

Also with Norton Ghost can i take an image of one hard drive that is idk like 40 Gigs with xp on it and the expand/open on another hard drive of a different size with xp installed on it and both hdd's with NTFS?

UberLord · Jul 18, 2002, 06:33 PM

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Originally posted by Yeti
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SGI's XFS filesystem is superior imo