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FAT32 or NTFS??

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I'm not sure should this question be here, but I have heard that FAT32 is faster than NTFS...is this true? How I can convert my filesystem from NTFS to FAT32?

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Is NTFS faster than FAT32? The jury is out. I find NTFS faster - other say FAT32.

 

How do you convert from NTFS to FAT32? Reformat the drive.

 

 

 

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DONT Reformat your drive!

Just go to a dos box and type

convert *:\ fs:ntfs

where * is the drive letter you want to convert.

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Well, that depends on your hard drive...for me NTFS was slower. My HD made much more loading than FAT32. FAT32...I recommend it to gamers. NTFS might be good for a SCSI hard drive, but not an IDE. I have a Western Digital 8 GIG IDE, which runs slow in NTFS, but faster in FAT32. I would not recommend installin NTFS because it is hard to return to FAT32 from Win 2000. I had that problem.

 

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