NTFS for Win98. Anybody Use it? EXPERIANCES????

[UKspace]

I want to dual boot, but also want to use NTFS!

I am thinking of using Winternals NTFS for Win 98 drivers which allow Windows 98/ME to see and use NTFS partitions.



<< NTFS for Win98 is a utility that allows Windows 95/98/Me systems to use the NTFS file system. Normally, users of dual-boot environments who want to share data between the Windows operating systems must configure their systems using regular FAT drives, which suffer from a 2GB maximum size.

NTFS for Win98 provides dual-boot users with full read-write access to their Windows NT drives so they can easily share data. With NTFS for Win98 your Windows 95/98/Me system is able to access any Windows volume, regardless of its file system. >>



My main questions are:

Has anybody used it? If so is it any good?
Is it slower to access an NTFS partition then a FAT32 one, using these drivers in Windows 98/ME?
Can the NTFS partition be used just like FAT32 drives under Windows 98/ME?

Thanks for any help!

 

[bigshooter]

You probably won't be able to boot to win98 with it. The software is probably loaded after windows loads so you would have no way to access your drive to boot. Just make a seperate fat 32 partition for win98.

 

[urbantechie]

Why would you want to use NTFS for win98? Use Win2k for that..

 

[Nitsuj]

I am using it, works nice, it allows you to access your NTFS partitions just as if they were FAT32. It lets you assign a drive letter for each NTFS partition so that your current drive letters don't get bumped. I have not noticed any performance degradation, although I am only using the read only version, not the write access version that you have to buy.

 

[UKspace]

Maybe I haven't explained myself that well.

I want to dual boot, and would like to use Windows 2000 and Windows ME. To do this I would like to format in the following way:

C: WinME FAT32
D: Win2k NTFS
E: Data NTFS


I want Win ME to be able to use the Data drive just like a normal Fat 32 drive. The data drive will be around 80Gb's large, so I don't think using FAT32 will be appropriate, thats why I want to use NTFS which I believe is better with larger partitions.

Can I do this with NTFS for Win98, and has anybody done it?
What about performance?


Thanks

 

[UKspace]

bump

 

[UKspace]

someone?

 

[gunf1ghter]

NTFS gives you one thing (in reality) over FAT for a windows 98 OS, file security. If you won't have this partition easily accessible over a (public) network, you are wasting your time with NTFS for Win98.

Win2K on the other hand will see a little bit of a speed-up in certain multi-thread operations with NTFS, but honestly the performance is negligible.

FAT32 will suffice for 90% of the home users out there who don't need special file security.

NTFS fragments faster than FAT32. Keep that in mind.

If you are using a conversion program for Win98 to read NTFS you will see a slowdown for the translation layer to let you read the partition. Keep that in mind.

If you just want to play with NTFS so you can see how file partitions work, your NT.X partition should suffice.

 

[UKspace]

Should I not bother with NTFS then?

 

[gunf1ghter]

I wouldn't.

 

[UKspace]

ok