Re: Another Dopey Question (FAT32/NTFS this time)

Nil wrote:

On 18 Sep 2007, sheltech@xxxxxxxxx wrote in rec.audio.pro:

it came with XP Pro, which uses NTFS . I have an old 40g external
drive that I just plugged in (just to see what condition it's
condition was in?) . It uses FAT 32, and since it plays the old
.wav files I stored there , I know the Opti will open FAT 32
files, but will the external drive store NTFS files. Logic tells
me "no" but the rest of me tells me I don't know so I better ask.

FAT, including FAT32, and NTFS are disk formats, NTFS does allow
extended information to be saved with media-files - just noticed that
when copying some digital camera images from a ntfs partition to a
network fat32 drive, XP warned about information loss. Another
difference is that NTFS is transaction oriented and able to roll
unfinished transactions back, consequently it is much less likely to
loose file data in case of say a powercut during a move.

There's no such thing as "FAT32 files" vs. "NTFS files". FAT32 and
NTFS are file systems that the operating system uses to store file.
Otherwise, files is files, and as long as the OS recognizes the disk
and it's file system and the files on it, your applications
shouldn't care what file system is in use.

They should in case it matters, because max file size is limited to 4
gigabytes in FAT32 and to 64 terabytes in NTFS, this because NTFS uses
64 bit math. It doesn't matter for standard .wav files, they limited to
4 gigabytes anyway, but there are other wavefile formats around.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen
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