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NTFS or FAT32 with Paris? [message #63865]

Fri, 27 January 2006 14:09

Messages: 61
Registered: July 2005

Member

Hi Guys,

I have a fairly new Seagate 120G drive that I used on one small project and
I tried mounting it on an older Win98 computer, only to find out it was
NTFS. In the past I've always formatted my record drives to FAT32, just
just to be consistant with my projects prior to running Paris on XP. Back
in the day I used to format new drives in DOS using the format Z/64 command
to create specific sector sizes. Now that disk formatting has become so
simplified, its easy to not know how the drives are formatted. The Seagate
software does not even offer the option to reformat this drive as FAT32
(only FAT16 or NTFS). It does offer byte sizes from 512 to 4K for NTFS.
What really offers the best performance for Paris these days?

RZ

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Re: NTFS or FAT32 with Paris? [message #63869 is a reply to message #63865]

Fri, 27 January 2006 16:42

John [1]

Messages: 2229
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

32k clusters. ntfs is considered marginaly better on many web sites.
you can use partition magic (and there's a free one out there too) to do
either fat32 or ntfs with 32k clusters. 32k will make your drive
effectively smaller so some recommend making 20gb of 32k for your song
and the other 100 for move the song over to when done. that way you get
the speed of a big cluster for the 20gb and the efficiency of say 4k
clusters on the 100gb part.

RZ wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a fairly new Seagate 120G drive that I used on one small project and
> I tried mounting it on an older Win98 computer, only to find out it was
> NTFS. In the past I've always formatted my record drives to FAT32, just
> just to be consistant with my projects prior to running Paris on XP. Back
> in the day I used to format new drives in DOS using the format Z/64 command
> to create specific sector sizes. Now that disk formatting has become so
> simplified, its easy to not know how the drives are formatted. The Seagate
> software does not even offer the option to reformat this drive as FAT32
> (only FAT16 or NTFS). It does offer byte sizes from 512 to 4K for NTFS.
> What really offers the best performance for Paris these days?
>
> RZ
>
>

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Re: NTFS or FAT32 with Paris? [message #63880 is a reply to message #63865]

Sat, 28 January 2006 09:13

Edna Sloan

Messages: 304
Registered: October 2005

Senior Member

It doesnt offer FAT32 probably because of the drive size limitation, 32GB I
believe.
E
"RZ" <pearlmusic@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:43da9b2a$1@linux...
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a fairly new Seagate 120G drive that I used on one small project
and
> I tried mounting it on an older Win98 computer, only to find out it was
> NTFS. In the past I've always formatted my record drives to FAT32, just
> just to be consistant with my projects prior to running Paris on XP. Back
> in the day I used to format new drives in DOS using the format Z/64
command
> to create specific sector sizes. Now that disk formatting has become so
> simplified, its easy to not know how the drives are formatted. The
Seagate
> software does not even offer the option to reformat this drive as FAT32
> (only FAT16 or NTFS). It does offer byte sizes from 512 to 4K for NTFS.
> What really offers the best performance for Paris these days?
>
> RZ
>
>

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Re: NTFS or FAT32 with Paris? [message #63887 is a reply to message #63880]

Sat, 28 January 2006 11:58

John [1]

Messages: 2229
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

you can do fat32 up to like 2 terabytes or something silly, but you need
the 'newest' fdisk in win98/me, partition magic or a free partition app.
I have a 120gb drive that's fat32 but i used partition magic. There
are free apps out there that will do it but I forget their name.

Edna wrote:
> It doesnt offer FAT32 probably because of the drive size limitation, 32GB I
> believe.
> E
> "RZ" <pearlmusic@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:43da9b2a$1@linux...
>
>>Hi Guys,
>>
>>I have a fairly new Seagate 120G drive that I used on one small project
>
> and
>
>>I tried mounting it on an older Win98 computer, only to find out it was
>>NTFS. In the past I've always formatted my record drives to FAT32, just
>>just to be consistant with my projects prior to running Paris on XP. Back
>>in the day I used to format new drives in DOS using the format Z/64
>
> command
>
>>to create specific sector sizes. Now that disk formatting has become so
>>simplified, its easy to not know how the drives are formatted. The
>
> Seagate
>
>>software does not even offer the option to reformat this drive as FAT32
>>(only FAT16 or NTFS). It does offer byte sizes from 512 to 4K for NTFS.
>>What really offers the best performance for Paris these days?
>>
>>RZ
>>
>>
>
>
>

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Re: NTFS or FAT32 with Paris? [message #63908 is a reply to message #63887]

Sat, 28 January 2006 20:15

Miguel Vigil [1]

Messages: 258
Registered: July 2005

Senior Member

Try Ranish Partition manager:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ranish.html

regards,

el miguel

"John" <no@no.com> wrote in message news:43dbce00@linux...
> you can do fat32 up to like 2 terabytes or something silly, but you need
> the 'newest' fdisk in win98/me, partition magic or a free partition app.
> I have a 120gb drive that's fat32 but i used partition magic. There
> are free apps out there that will do it but I forget their name.
>
> Edna wrote:
> > It doesnt offer FAT32 probably because of the drive size limitation,
32GB I
> > believe.
> > E
> > "RZ" <pearlmusic@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:43da9b2a$1@linux...
> >
> >>Hi Guys,
> >>
> >>I have a fairly new Seagate 120G drive that I used on one small project
> >
> > and
> >
> >>I tried mounting it on an older Win98 computer, only to find out it was
> >>NTFS. In the past I've always formatted my record drives to FAT32, just
> >>just to be consistant with my projects prior to running Paris on XP.
Back
> >>in the day I used to format new drives in DOS using the format Z/64
> >
> > command
> >
> >>to create specific sector sizes. Now that disk formatting has become so
> >>simplified, its easy to not know how the drives are formatted. The
> >
> > Seagate
> >
> >>software does not even offer the option to reformat this drive as FAT32
> >>(only FAT16 or NTFS). It does offer byte sizes from 512 to 4K for NTFS.
> >>What really offers the best performance for Paris these days?
> >>
> >>RZ
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >

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