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Bungleau · 09-29-2006, 08:56 AM

It's been a while since I played with dual-booting, but...

Win 98 cannot read NTFS. It's foreign. I'm not sure if ME can, but ME is a piece of hogslop. So anything on an NTFS mount is invisible.

All things being equal, NTFS is better. It's better structured and wastes less space.

For the bonus, putting things on a different partition will never help, and may hurt performance. Putting them on a different disk will never hurt, and may help. You can put as many partitions as you want on a drive, but you still have just one set of read/write heads for it. Think of a waiter or waitress serving one table or ten... performance goes down as each table demands more.

09-29-2006, 08:56 AM	#2
Bungleau 40th Level Warrior Join Date: October 29, 2001 Location: Western Wilds of Michigan Posts: 11,752	It's been a while since I played with dual-booting, but... Win 98 cannot read NTFS. It's foreign. I'm not sure if ME can, but ME is a piece of hogslop. So anything on an NTFS mount is invisible. All things being equal, NTFS is better. It's better structured and wastes less space. For the bonus, putting things on a different partition will never help, and may hurt performance. Putting them on a different disk will never hurt, and may help. You can put as many partitions as you want on a drive, but you still have just one set of read/write heads for it. Think of a waiter or waitress serving one table or ten... performance goes down as each table demands more. __________________ B Save Early, Save Often Save Before, Save After Two-Star General, Spelling Soldiers -+-+-+ Give 'em a hug one more time. It might be the last.