File System

19 Mar 2005 11:50 PM

Budd

What's best for Windows 2000 small network, NTFS or HPFS ?

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20 Mar 2005 3:41 AM

paulmd@efn.org

ntfs. Unless you have a reason for the other???

20 Mar 2005 11:15 AM

Budd

HPFS is already on this HDD.

This seems to be preferred:
http://www.lesbell.com.au/hpfsfaq.html

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20 Mar 2005 11:46 AM

Budd

Sorry, the boot disk I used has a fdisk that identifies it wrongly as HPFS
but my Win98 boot identifies it as NTFS.

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20 Mar 2005 7:32 PM

Rob Stow

Budd wrote:

> Sorry, the boot disk I used has a fdisk that identifies it wrongly as HPFS
> but my Win98 boot identifies it as NTFS.
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That is a common mistake made by older utilities, such as fdisk.

Just think of NTFS as MicroSoft's version of HPFS.

21 Mar 2005 11:38 AM

Budd

Thanks.

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> Budd wrote:
> > Sorry, the boot disk I used has a fdisk that identifies it wrongly as
HPFS
> > but my Win98 boot identifies it as NTFS.
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> That is a common mistake made by older utilities, such as fdisk.
>
> Just think of NTFS as MicroSoft's version of HPFS.