Alpaca Portrait Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 I was wondering what differences there were (if any) between formatting a partition/drive with NTFS vs. formatting it with FAT32 and then later converting it to NTFS. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tap52384 Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 I personally do not know the difference, but I would imagine that it would never be as good as originally formatting with NTFS, just like an upgrade of windows isn't as good as starting fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Why not just start with NTFS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Portrait Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 (edited) Why not just start with NTFS?It's not about that, I just want to know if there's a difference between the two. Edited July 8, 2007 by Alpaca Portrait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Well there's lots of differences between the two formats; you can find out ore about those by searching the web or these forums. But as for the difference between an original and a converted format, I dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 You wont have NTFS security set up if converting from FAT:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237399/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpaca Portrait Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 Interesting. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griefage Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 if you don't start with ntfs you won't have dynamic disk support.Windows XP Professional supports two types of disk storage: basic and dynamic. Basic disk storage uses partition-oriented disks. A basic disk contains basic volumes (primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives). Dynamic disk storage uses volume-oriented disks, and includes features that basic disks do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoic Joker Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 This MS KB article should cover it: NTFS Preinstallation and Windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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