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October 4th 08, 06:08 PM
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FAT32 Question
Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? Thanks, 
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October 4th 08, 08:35 PM
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FAT32 Question
"Dave" wrote in message
... 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)
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October 4th 08, 09:20 PM
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FAT32 Question
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" wrote in message ... Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? Thanks,
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October 4th 08, 09:34 PM
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FAT32 Question
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" wrote in message ... Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? Thanks,
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October 4th 08, 09:45 PM
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If it turns out that there are any compatibility issues such as the ones
listed under compatibility at the site I mentioned. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... 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.
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October 5th 08, 03:40 AM
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FAT32 Question
"Dave" wrote in message ... 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!
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October 5th 08, 06:48 AM
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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" wrote in message ... 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)
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