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Post by Garet Jax » 2003-06-09 13:35

Did You knew that the maximum supported size of an NTFS partition is 17,179,869,184 GB ? (=16 exabytes)
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Post by tetsuokin » 2003-06-09 13:47

Well i'm just glad that i've got a few exabytes left on my very large FTP site then :lol:

How people find these out is beyond me..

Aparently it takes 200,000 Joints to kill a mouse, how the hell did they work that out?? Did a few scientists with a very large block of dope sit around rolling up and say "Today i'm going to smoke as many joints as i can, to see how many will kill a mouse"?? I think after about the 10th or 11th, the mouse couldn't give a shit as long as it had cheese and a music to listen to!!

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Re: NTFS

Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-09 14:00

Garet Jax wrote:Did You knew that the maximum supported size of an NTFS partition is 17,179,869,184 GB ? (=16 exabytes)
So I see you found some info on NTFS then. :)
Care to give us a link?

So, are you going to go ahead with the conversion?
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Post by Garet Jax » 2003-06-09 14:09

that's not really an info site :(

It gives me lot of new questions, and almost no answers...
:etorw enOdionaraPehT | TheParanoidOne wrote:So, are you going to go ahead with the conversion?
uhhh... ?? Which one?
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Post by Garet Jax » 2003-06-09 14:13

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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-09 15:07

Garet Jax wrote:uhhh... ?? Which one?
In this thread:
You wrote:I want to switch to NTFS. Does MFT crashes more often then FAT ?? I don't want my computer to broke after changing to NTFS.
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Post by Garet Jax » 2003-06-09 15:21

:oops: Oh. This one :)

What I want to be sure about, is that other computers in my LAN will have access to my Win XP comp after switching to NTFS. Other comps use: Win 95 and Win ME.
Also: if I copy some stuff to CD / 1,44 will it be saved as FAT volume?
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Post by TheParanoidOne » 2003-06-09 15:27

Garet Jax wrote:What I want to be sure about, is that other computers in my LAN will have access to my Win XP comp after switching to NTFS. Other comps use: Win 95 and Win ME.
Over a LAN? Yes, as long as you set up the share properly and give appropriate permissions.

On the same machine (dual boot)? No. Win 9x cannot read local NTFS partitions.
Garet Jax wrote:Also: if I copy some stuff to CD / 1,44 will it be saved as FAT volume?
CDs use a different file system and will be readable by all. Floppy disks under Windows (all) uses FAT12 which is readable by all incarnations of Windows.
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Post by Garet Jax » 2003-06-09 15:56

TheParanoidOne wrote:set up the share properly and give appropriate permissions.
sure :)
TheParanoidOne wrote:On the same machine (dual boot)? No. Win 9x cannot read local NTFS partitions.
No, I don't want to install other system on my precious computer. I tried to install Linux, and Windows XP once... :x :x <-- that was hell :evil:
... I know, probably some stupid linux version.


More Qs:
- how do I format my disk using NTFS? Normally I use Segate floppy (delivered with HDD) to format disk... but I don't think it have NTFS support. Can I just make WinXP boot floppy, with format.com, and format c:\ to NTFS? Then how do I make multiple partitions? <--- that is stupid question, and I'm asking it only because I don't know what to ask for :D , so You don't have to answer. When I'll have some more NTFS related problem I'll put them here.

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Post by sarf » 2003-06-09 16:18

There are programs that will convert a partition to NTFS from FAT. I would recommend the command CONVERT (available in Windows 2000 and above, I think) - just use "CONVERT drive: /fs:ntfs" and you are done.

If you wish to use non-Microsoft programs (or do not have Windows 2000) then I would recommend you to evaluate or buy Partition Magic which is a tool that is over-kill for what you want to do, but which will do what you need (dunno if it can be run on Win 9x, though :shock: ).

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Post by ender » 2003-06-09 17:24

PartitionMagic runs in DOS, Win9x and WinNT/2k/XP, but it really is overkill.

As for NTFS under Win9x/ME: SysInternals have some tools for that (though AFAIK the free version only supports reading of NTFS volumes)

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