On 21 Jan 2006 at 0:28, Venkat Viswanathan wrote:

> Hi all,  I wish to partition/format a new seagate HDD for installing
> winxp pro. 
> 
> (1) i remember having read somewhere(but not 100%sure)thar drives
> patitioned with "partition magic" have problems with win xp. is this
> correct? 

  I have not encountered that.
 
> (2)which will be better NTFS/FAT32? any pros/cons.

  NTFS implements a rich system of per-file and per-directory permissions, 
and tracks dates of creation, last modification, and last access.  And it 
essentially eliminates the need to defrag.  Compression and encryption are 
available as options.
  These come with a slight performance penalty.  It's probably worth it to 
most people, but it depends on what your needs are.
 
> (3)is it possible/advisable to have a combinaton of both?

  Any given partition must be formatted in one way or the other.  But if you 
have multiple partitions, you can make the choice separately for each.
 
> (4) i can ofcourse use the utility available at seagate web site

  My inclination would be to use XP's own tools whenever possible, and PM if 
you need something they won't do (such as growing or shrinking a partition 
that has data on it).

David Gillett

 

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