Shoutbox

i don't have to research,

i have first hand experience that Fat32 is better then ntfs

the problem happened when i copied all my data back after formatting

ie downloads.. music..

the bug itself lies in copying large amounts of mixed small and large files

for some reason it confuses the volume bitmap and it believes that theres not enough freespace so it allows space to use the mft

the problem is though, is that the mft doesn't properly get notified and doesn't shrink down properly, and instead reports it as an error

but, its when you defrag that it gets really bad becoz the files are moved into the space the mft expands into

and by doing this, the files are over written, by the mft, which doesn't know itself the files have been removed

this in turn causes corruption along the mft and you start getting corrupted indexes

Fat32 has been more stable for me, for as long as i've known it

sure it was less stable on older versions of windows. but seeing as windows ME and XP are both self repairing Operating systems
(with the health of the Windows file protection utility), many errors people talk about work themselves out

i have never had a problem with fat32 and they all started when i went to ntfs

so im just warning people about the problems you CAN face

so if you believe informing people about the problems they can face is nonsense.. then you are one of the monolithic goons that are trying to keep freespeech down, and preventing people knowing all the facts

THE FACTS ARE

NTFS is going to be soon outdated as the WINFS file system will soon become available via a windows update

the WINFS is already supported by windows xp as its not far off of ntfs except its more secure and this flaw and bug is fixed

and that the mft is going to be replaced by a more efficient system