NTFS or FAT32 for your WIN2k???

[FiDo14DiDo]

Just wondering what everyone was doing out there with their Win2K setup

 

[TheVrolok]

There should really be a poll. Anyhow, I used FAT32 only because I'm dual booting 98se and I wanna be able to view my 2k partition. Otherwise I'd run NTFS.

 

[Siva]

fat32, I need dos for backing stuff up if it crashes (like today)

 

[IcemanJer]

started with FAT32, but was convinced to convert the drive to NTFS, and my ATI TV tuner card hasn't worked since..

couldn't.. watch.. hockey.. games..

 

[tomcat]

Hmm I'm using fat32, but I want to convert to NTFS because of the 4gig file size limitation.. I do some work with video.

 

[samarth]

I used FAT32 only because I'm dual booting 98se and I wanna be able to view my 2k partition. Otherwise I'd run NTFS.
Same Here

 

[freebee]

I'm Fat so I use Fat32. Seems more appropriate.

 

[joohang]

<< started with FAT32, but was convinced to convert the drive to NTFS, and my ATI TV tuner card hasn't worked since.. >>

WTF? ATI seriously needs to hire better programmers.

 

[bigrash]

i'm using fat32, but i was thinking to change it to ntfs. but i'm not sure

 

[d0ofy]

I use FAT32 for all of my partitions except for my swap(FAT) and my NTFS storage partition for the security from preying eyes for my &quot;special&quot; files.

 

[goodoptics]

i use FAT32 because i'm not familiar with NTFS...

 

[limsandy]

fat32

 

[Turkey]

Weighing in with the first NTFS. I also have a 500 mb partition that has a bare w98 install(fat32) in case I have to share files between Linux and w2k (AFAIK Linux cannot write to an NTFS partition and w2k can't read from an e2fs).

 

[prodigy]

Using FAT32

 

[GT1999]

I'm surprised by all of the FAT32 replies. I highly recommend NTFS if you care at all about security, but that's just me.

 

[~zonker~]

NTFS all the way. oh wait, I have a 1GB FAT16 boot partition with DOS on it as the alternate Boot OS too

 

[Schola]

I run it with strictly NTFS, because after a week I dropped my dual boating w/ 98se like a bad habbit.

schola

 

[Pyxis]

My Win2K is on a NTFS partition, and I have a FAT32 partition for Win98.

 

[virtuamike]

NTFS!! Has anyone tried defragging FAT32 in Win2K? Bleagh!

 

[IcemanJer]

<< I run it with strictly NTFS, because after a week I dropped my dual boating w/ 98se like a bad habbit. >>

I shall do that once I figure out how to watch TV and DVD on Win2K w/ NTFS...

dammit, Canucks gave up a 3-0 lead to Leafs going into 3rd period and ended up with a 3-3 tie... would've been better if I could watch it instead of listening it via streaming ASF.

 

[silhoutte]

NTFS baby. and i'm loving it!

 

[TheManiac]

NTFS for life!

 

[novon]

NTFS - isn't is self optimizing?

 

[Tripleshot]

NTFS is the best choice for this OS. Video and sound and peripheral companies have written drivers for this OS for over a year. Its much more stable than 9x OS's and provides security for your files and folders,in that other OS's cannot see them.(linux the same way)

Check with ATI for an upgraded win2K driver and enjoy the system.

 

[Schola]

<< I shall do that once I figure out how to watch TV and DVD on Win2K w/ NTFS >>



What cards do you have for this function? I ask because I have both of these features working fine on my machine. I use a Hauppauge(sp??) for tv and I use a RealMagic Hardware Decorder card for DVD, however I have also used the software decoding that came with my G400 and both of them work fine.

Schola