- Should I format my USB stick with NTFS or FAT32 if using only with Win ?
- Posted by Joe deAngelo on January 16th, 2008
Should I format my USB stick with FAT32 or NTFS if I plan to use it only on WinXP, Vista and Win2K
systems ?
I would prefer NTFS. Are there any downsides ?
Joe
- Posted by Pegasus \(MVP\) on January 16th, 2008
"Joe deAngelo" <joeking@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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No, there aren't.
- Posted by Bob I on January 16th, 2008
Use NTSF if you want, you would only have an issue with "other"
operating systems.
BTW the microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support group is for
discussion of issues involving Windows "Help and Support" "as in
"Start", "Help and Support"
Joe deAngelo wrote:
- Posted by xxx_ on January 16th, 2008
If the USB stick is smaller then 400MB, use FAT32.
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- Posted by Ron Hardin on January 16th, 2008
I think FAT32 has a larger cluster size (size of minimal allocated chunk)
than NTFS, thus producing more waste if you have lots of small files.
But FAT32 is recognized by for example Linux, which may or may not,
depending on who you talk to, reliably deal with NTFS, should you
want to maintain that option.
The problem being that NTFS is not open source so people not on the
inside can't write perfect code to deal with it very easily.
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- Posted by Uwe Sieber on January 16th, 2008
Joe deAngelo wrote:
With NTFS XP and higher activate a write cache on
'removable' USB drive and NTFS delays some write
accesses for a long time.
So you always have to use the 'Safe removal'. It's
a good idea on FAT formatted USB drives too but
with NTFS it's a must.
Uwe
- Posted by Rod Speed on January 16th, 2008
Joe deAngelo <joeking@hotmail.com> wrote:
The main consideration is that if you ever plan to put
very big files over 2GB on it, then you cant use FAT32.
Those are mostly PVR capture files, produced when recording TV etc.
There are a lot less free recovery tools that support NTFS.
- Posted by Ken Blake, MVP on January 16th, 2008
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:17:47 -0500, Ron Hardin
<rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:
It depends on the size of the drive/partition, but if it's more than
8GB, that's correct.
No, the size of the files is not generally significant. Every file, on
the average, wastes approximately half of its last cluster. So the
amount of waste depends on how many *total* files you have, not how
many small ones. The total amount of waste is roughly equal to half
the cluster size times the total number of files.
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- Posted by Ken Blake, MVP on January 16th, 2008
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:56:24 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but that's 4GB, not 2GB.
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- Posted by Plato on January 17th, 2008
Joe deAngelo wrote:
FAT32
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- Posted by Ace on January 22nd, 2008
What is the size of the drive, flash or harddisk based?
I tend to keep any drive under the 120GB mark on FAT, except where there
is a technical need for another filesystem. (For example when you need to
have filesizes over 2GB, such as when editing video).
That is personal preference however, and helps with portability.
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