My WD 80GB 8mb cache hard drive is on the way! Few questions...

[bocamojo]

This is one very nice drive! You will not be disappointed! I switched over from a 40GB 60GXP IBM, which I really liked, and was blown away at how much faster and responsive the WD 8MB model was! I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it for myself. Also, definitely go with NTFS on XP. It's just better, period.

 

[Moffat Cafe]

 

[Moffat Cafe]

Sorry about the 'no text'I goofed.
Anyway...
someone has asked me to partition his 80 Gig hard drive for him.
He wants two primary patitions and an extended partition containing four logicals (all his data, photos etc. common to both operating systems will be on these). One primary will have: XP and the second: 98 (don't ask me why). I,ll be using Partition magic and was thinking of NTFS for the XP partition and Fat32 for all the others.

Will this work?

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: Moffat Cafe
Sorry about the 'no text'I goofed.
Anyway...
someone has asked me to partition his 80 Gig hard drive for him.
He wants two primary patitions and an extended partition containing four logicals (all his data, photos etc. common to both operating systems will be on these). One primary will have: XP and the second: 98 (don't ask me why). I,ll be using Partition magic and was thinking of NTFS for the XP partition and Fat32 for all the others.

Will this work?

Yes, this will work. NTFS can exist on the primary partition and FAT32 will work on the other 2 partitions. Everything should play nicely together.

 

[Yvo]

Yes everything will work but understand that both drives will be a "C:\" drive under their operating systems, don't let that screw you over.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: Yvo
Yes everything will work but understand that both drives will be a "C:\" drive under their operating systems, don't let that screw you over.

If that's the case, you could use Partition Magic to re-letter the drive. But, yes, having 2 "C:\" drives could get a little messy.

 

[Smilin]

There is only one time to use fat over ntfs: if you have a crappy 9x OS that you absolutely, positively cannot upgrade to an NT based OS and it needs to read data from a dual boot and and you absolutely, positively cannot find any workaround.

If the above does not apply to you then you should be using NTFS. If you disagree with me on this it is very likely that you are either ignorant or a tard. Nothing personal. Just saying it how it is. Some of you may be offended by this statement so feel free to flame me. I won't respond - I have no doubt that others will defend me.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: dszd0g

Overall I like NTFS. What I hate about NTFS:

No free DOS read/write boot disk support (Unless anyone has any links I don't know about?)
Virus Scanning boot disks (NAV, McAfee) don't support sticking in the CD and scanning an NTFS filesystem.

All the above could be solved by Microsoft opening up the specifications on NTFS without any strings attached (NDA, etc.). Unfortunately, the Department of Justice seems to have allowed them to place NDAs which make the settlement meaningless, but that is a topic for off topic.

There are many utilities to let you read ntfs. There are even ntfs filesystem drivers for windows 98. ERD commander is a utility that comes to mind. I'm able to scan cd's just fine but maybe I'm not trying to do it in the same manner as you.

 

[dszd0g]

Originally posted by: Smilin

There are many utilities to let you read ntfs. There are even ntfs filesystem drivers for windows 98. ERD commander is a utility that comes to mind. I'm able to scan cd's just fine but maybe I'm not trying to do it in the same manner as you.

Maybe you missed the word "free" in my statement. ERD commander is too expensive to justify it for home use. If you can provide a link to a free read/write one that works, I will be quite happy. SysInternals (the people that developed the one that comes with ERD commander) have a free read-only one, but if you want read/write they point you to ERD commander.