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It may be so because you have the lost clusters on your FAT partition. On FAT disks it's happens. You must repair your disk and then make decision to change to NTFS or not. Of course the NTFS is safer.<br />

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It may be so because you have the lost clusters on your FAT partition. On FAT disks it's happens. You must repair your disk and then make decision to change to NTFS or not. Of course the NTFS is safer.


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I know about lost clusters in FAT, but what I was looking for was advice/suggestions/pros-co<wbr />ns on which format is better to use in my primary partition. Armand you say NTFS is safer...why ??<br />

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I know about lost clusters in FAT, but what I was looking for was advice/suggestions/pros-cons on which format is better to use in my primary partition. Armand you say NTFS is safer...why ??


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My primary partition of my server is in FAT format. This is a waste of space. Drive reports 600 megs free when it should be 1.6 GIGS. Should I change it to NTFS or leave it FAT ??
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My primary partition of my server is in FAT format. This is a waste of space. Drive reports 600 megs free when it should be 1.6 GIGS. Should I change it to NTFS or leave it FAT ??

NTFS the primary partition

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