[quote]is this gud to do? what are the effects in doing this?[/quote] Yup is good to do,,to those who are familiar with the FILE SYSTEM: NTFS and FAT32,,,, ok here's the info if you're not Familiar with those File system [b]NTFS[/b] [b]NTFS has features to improve reliability, such as transaction logs to help recover from disk failures. To control access to files, you can set permissions for directories and/or individual files. NTFS files are not accessible from other operating systems such as DOS. For large applications, NTFS supports spanning volumes, which means files and directories can be spread out across several physical disks.[/b] [b]FAT32 The existing File Allocation Table (FAT) file system was invented in 1977 as a way to store data on floppy disks for Microsoft stand-alone Disk Basic. Although originally intended for floppy disks, FAT has since been modified to be a fast, and flexible system for managing data on both removable and fixed media. In 1996, Windows 95 OSR2 came out with FAT32, a new and improved FAT. A new generation of very large hard disks will soon be shipping, and the existing FAT data structures have finally reached the limit of their ability to support ever larger media. FAT currently can support a single disk volume up to 2 Gigabytes in size. FAT32 is an enhancement of the FAT file system that supports larger hard drives with improved disk space efficiency.[/b] [b]Comparison of NTFS and FAT32 Files System Any of the represented nowadays file systems is rather old and NTFS is a very old system! PC for a long time used only operating system DOS and FAT is owed it by its appearance. But some systems aimed to the future were developed and existed then. Two such systems obtained the wide recognition - NTFS created for the operating system Windows NT 3.1 and HPFS - a true friend of OS/2. The implantation of new systems was difficult. In 1995 at appearance Windows95 nobody thought that something needed to be changed. FAT32 appeared in Windows 95 OSR2 didn't change the essence of the system which just does not give the possibility to organise effective operation with a plenty of data but widen the boarders. HPFS (High Performance File System) actively used till nowadays by OS/2 users has shown itself as enough successful system, but also it had essential disadvantages - complete absence of automatic restorability means, excessive complexity of data structure and the low-level of flexibility. NTFS could not win personal computers for a long time because of the fact that for organisation of effective operation with the data structures it demanded significant memory sizes. The systems with 4 or 8 MByte (standard of 1995-1996) were just unable to get though any plus from NTFS. Therefore it had incorrect reputation of a slow and bulky system. Actually it does not fit the reality - modern computer systems with memory more than 64 Mbytes get just huge increase of productivity from NTFS usage. In the given table all essential pluses and minuses of the widespread presently systems such as FAT32, FAT and NTFS are shown together. It is hardly reasonable to discuss other systems, as now 97% of the users make choice between Windows98, Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000 (NT5.0), and other variants are just not present. It would be desirable to tell that if your operating system is NT (Windows 2000), then to use any file system which differs from NTFS means to limit the convenience and flexibility of operating system operation. NT and especially Windows 2000 with NTFS are two parts of a unit. A lot of useful NT possibilities are directly connected with physical and logical structure of the file system, and you should use FAT or FAT32 there only for compatibility - if you have the task to read these disks from any other systems.[/b] So more of the programmers love NTFS,but for me i go now for FAT32 coz' its more robust...hehehe [b]NEED SOME REPU GUYZ,[/b]

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