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What's better? FAT or FAT32 for memory sticks?
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Neither get it converted to NTFS the amount of drives i've had brought to me where people have lost info due to both FATs being corrupted is unbelievable at least with NTFS the MFT is journalled so it's far more likely to recover from a problem.
As long as you aren't using Win9x then that's what I do and i've NEVER had one come back corrupted after switching to NTFS0 -
gaming_guy wrote: »you can format drives over 32gb into fat32, but just not by windoze inbuilt tools.
i formatted a 1tb drive into 60gb fat32 (& the rest is ntfs) via swissknife as windows just wouldnt format it over 32gb for some odd reason
Ive formatted several drives (250 gig, 320 gig, 500 gig etc) with swissknife into fat32
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lets simplify this for the OP
if you intend lots of large file go with NTFS
if lots of small files go with FAT32
personally I only use NTFS on windows machines because it has more in built file protection.0
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