The info on NTFS would leave you to believe that if you had a power outage you
would have been able to recover from it.
Certainly I have had a PC doing a Windows update when it had a BSOD episode, it
recovered!
What I would say is Windows is very bad at communicating with the user that it
is actually doing something at times. Which happened in the above example but I
left well alone and after a while I had a working computer again.
There is software that allows PC's to read Mac HFS formatted disc's, can't
remember it at the moment.
Phil
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From: Greg Simmons <>
To:
Sent: Sunday, 9 March, 2008 1:26:37 PM
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: The wonders of FAT32?
Philip Tyler wrote: "I would only have a FAT32 formatted
drive as a
means of transferring files between Mac's and PC's I would always,
always have a backup on the PC on an NTFS formatted drive!"
I remember reading all about NTFS some time ago, and realising it was
a superior filing system. The annoying thing is that I both need *and*
want Mac compatibility, which continually annoys me because I'd feel
much better having it all on NTFS. ;-)
The question for me now is this: if the drive was formatted to NTFS
when the power blackout occured, would it have been recoverable? I
guess I'll never know the answer to that. Certainly, FAT32 was a good
choice in this particular case...
The plan now is to get a second large drive to make a complete
duplicate of my existing drive (rather than using the collection of
smaller drives I've currently got). After reading the two posts
(Philip Tyler and mdfrancey), I'll be hedging my bets and formatting
the other drive NTFS...
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