Re: Recovering an uninitialized NTFS hard disk
- From: "Ed M." <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:20:19 -0500
I just had five directories (~ 30 Gb) disappearing without a trace
overnight and without anything obvious to trigger it. Tons of smal files
in each. Apparently, root names for them got corrupted. I was able to
recover everything from backup but this makes me wonder:
Does NTFS really offer any advantage beyond 4 Gb file size
and user/security features??? Is it perhaps less stable than FAT32?
Over 15 years, I never had a real problem with FAT/FAT32, yet with
physically 100% good drive the apparent corruption of MFT (gone
completely unnoticed by WIndows, BTW) wiped 30 Gb off NTFS
drive just like that. Plus, the MTF reserves ridiculously large
volume space just for itself. Seems like 10% of HDD is
wasted just for the priviledge of having NTFS that seems prone
to all kinds of software problems!
Would I be better off converting all of my drives to FAT32 if I have
no use for user-level permissions and disk quotas?
DK
Personally, I have had no problems with NTFS since migrating from W98 to
2000 and then to XP. I have had failing/marginal HDDs corrupt data, but that
would have been the same with FAT32. There are other things that could
corrupt your data, including memory. I recently had a system here that was
getting data corruption only on the SATA drives and it turned out to be a
failing SATA controller on a NV680i MB (which turned out to be a known issue
on that MB). If you want to go ahead and reformat the drive to FAT32 you
could give it a go, but I really doubt you will see any difference than you
would by reformatting in NTFS.
Ed
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