I have a windows 2000 xp with service pack 1. Why is it that my c drive is NTFS, and my recovery drive is FAT?
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Yes, update to SP2 and convert your FAT file system to NTFS...it's much better filing system for your OS..\nWhy? Because you installed the OS using NTFS, and the other I would imagine is either another partition, or it's a Slave Drive...You can always reformat it and convert it to NTFS...Always use NTFS for XP operating systems...
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i had the same problem.i deleted service pack 2 and my computer was faster again
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FAT and NTFS are different disk formats/file systems. NTFS is more stable and more secure than FAT and allows the storage of larger files than can be stored on FAT. NTFS was meant to be used for Win 2000 up. NTFS formatted media cannot work on a FAT formatted system. However, FAT formatted media can work on both FAT and NTFS. That's why usb drives are FAT formatted.\n\nWin XP is the version of windows after Win 2000. Don't remember where Win Me comes in, but stay away from it. One of the biggest differences between Win 2000 and Win XP is the massive driver support available in Win XP. You can connect almost any device without needing to install the driver.
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Your hard drive isn't affected, but your install of XP will definitely suffer some problems. When you install XP on a system there are hundreds (if not thousands) of adjustments that are made to enable XP to "talk" to your particular hardware setup. When you plug your c: drive into a new motherboard you're essentially moving your entire system into a new environment and all of the adjustments that XP made to talk to your old chipset and drivers and so on are different. At best, your new setup will work with no major flaws that you notice. At worst, your new setup will crash violently and take all of  your data with it. My advice is to back up all your critical data from your old system, perform a clean install of XP, and then migrate your old files to the new system. Any other plan of action is risking your data and not a good idea, IMHO.
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If you really dont care of the contents on your cp just do what i did when i had all problems: Get ur disk thats ur home like windows xp or watever and put it in when the cp reboots. But you gotta know what your doing. Also if you have some spar cash look in the yellow pages for computer repair
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Your best bet is a complete reformat and reinstall.  Windows XP uses a different file system (NTFS) than Win98 (FAT32).  While XP can run on a FAT32 drive, it will be much happier and more stable with it's native filesystem.\n\nBack up all your important files to another drive or to external media (DVD-R's, flash drives, etc) and boot with the WinXP CD.  Select a new installation and delete all existing partitions.  Windows will then format the drive and install a fresh copy.
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The NTFS file system is the recommended file system for use with Windows 2000. NTFS has all of the basic capabilities of FAT, and it provides the following advantages over the FAT and FAT 32 file systems:\n\n1) Better file security and auditing. 2) Better disk compression. 3) Support for large hard disks, up to 2 terabytes (TB). {The maximum drive size for NTFS is much greater than that for FAT, and as drive size increases, performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.}  4) As well as various features for POSIX subsystem.\n\nFAT and FAT32\nFAT32 is an enhanced version of the FAT file system that can be used on drives from 512 megabytes (MB) to 2 TB in size. FAT and FAT32 offer compatibility with operating systems other than Windows 2000. If you're setting up a dual-boot configuration, you should probably use FAT or FAT32.\n\nIf you're dual booting Windows 2000 and another operating system, choose a file system based on the other operating system, using the following criteria:\n\nFormat the partition as FAT if the installation partition is smaller than 2 gigabytes (GB), or if you're dual booting Windows 2000 with MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT. \n\nUse FAT32 for use on partitions that are 2 GB or larger. If you choose to format using FAT during Windows 2000 Setup and your partition is greater than 2 GB, Setup automatically formats it as FAT32. \n\nIt's recommended that you use NTFS rather than FAT32 for partitions larger than 32 GB.\n\n\nSame thing goes for windows server 2003 also.\n\nhowever,there are more things.......\n\nNTFS supports filenames up to 256 characters in length (including spaces) with multiple extensions; FAT supports 8-character filenames with 3-character extensions, except when using VFAT.\n\nNTFS provides robust system security whether on a workstation or server; FAT does not.\n\nNTFS preserves mixed case filenames (although it does not distinguish between upper and lowercase when searching for files or folders); FAT does not.\n\nNTFS keeps a log of activities, in order to be able to restore the disk after a power failure or other interruptions.\n\nNTFS supports RAID configurations, whereas DOS is not equipped to read stripe sets, volume sets, and mirror sets.  Any such NTFS partitions would be invisible to anyone trying to read them from DOS.\n\nNTFS supports files and partitions up to 16 exabytes in length (an exabyte is about 16 quintillion bytes).\n\nNTFS provides real-time file compression on a file-by-file basis.\n\nNTFS supports POSIX standard network naming conventions such as case sensitivity, last-access-time stamping, and hard links.   Caution: While NTFS supports POSIX naming, NT's utilities do not.  Do not manage POSIX files with Explorer.\n\nNT implements a B-tree directory structure rather than the linked list directory structure used by the FAT file system.  This speeds up file searches and reduces the possibility of a missing link resulting in data loss.
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When introducing Windows NT, Microsoft needed a faster and more stable file system than FAT. NTFS uses clusters to store data as well but the clusters can vary in size minimizing the loss (FAT's clusters is locked to a specific size). \nNTFS splits the drive into four theoretical parts. The first part, MFT (Master File Table), contains important information about the files, free space and so forth. Then comes an area that can be used for storage, until we reach the exact middle of the drive. Here a copy of the first 16 MFT-files are stored again, and then we have another area where you can store data. \nNTFS can contrary to FAT, compress and encrypt data stored on the drive. It also has a much higher fault tolerance then FAT. NTFS has gotten a bad reputation as a rather slow file system. The truth is that it is rather memory reliant, so on system with 512 memory and up NTFS gets significantly faster. Unfortunately only NT-based Windows can read NTFS. \n\nFAT exists in basically two flavors: FAT16 and FAT32. FAT16 holds cluster information based on 16 bits of information, and FAT32 uses 32 bits to manage the storage space. As a result, FAT16 can manage 65535 clusters and FAT32 can handle a maximum of 268435456 clusters, for a maximum storage capacity of 2GB and 2TB respectively. FAT16's maximum file size is 2GB while FAT32's maximum file size is 4 GB. \n\nThere have been going around a rumour that FAT would actually be faster than NTFS. This was true as long as your system was very poorly equipped with RAM, which happened at about the launch of Windows XP. Not only did the OS itself require a lot of RAM, 128MB, to run ok, but to be able to play games and such you needed at least twice that and NTFS had to take a lot of the fault for that. However as long as you use 256MB RAM and up NTFS is just as fast and even faster when you get past 512MB, which most people most likely have today
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Once you install Windows XP Service Pack 2 the windows boot/load screen changes, don't worry about it, its only giving you something to look at while windows loads.
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Your disk has a partition on it, it's just in use with XP and all your files.\n\nIf you want to resize your existing partition to make it smaller to create an additional partition for Linux or other uses, try Partition Magic from Symantec.  I've used it in the past for these purposes.\nhttp://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html
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If you want to start over then just reformat the drive and reinstall Win XP
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Because your C: drive contains Windows and all the programs you have installed (if you didn't choose to install them on the D: drive).  I am also assuming that these are two hard drives and not just separate partitions because Windows will see a partitioned drive as two drives also.
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FAT (FAT16 and FAT32) and NTFS are two methods for storing data on a hard drive. \n\nThe hard drive has to either be formatted using one or the other, or can be converted from one to the other (usually FAT to NTFS) using a system tool. \n\nWHAT IS FAT?\n\nFAT is basically the same file system that has been used on PCs since the early DOS days, with a number of modifications made to allow it to work with larger hard drives. \n\nWHAT IS NTFS?\n\nNTFS was originally developed to work in Windows NT, to support large hard drives from the get-go (up to 16 billion gigabytes per volume!) and to guard against the kinds of errors that routinely wreck FAT volumes. NTFS allows you to use larger drives, secure directories and files against unauthorized users, has better data-protection technologies, and doesn't succumb to errors or fragmentation as easily as FAT/FAT32. \n\nWhat I Recommend...\n\nNTFS is a better choice overall at this point and most computers running Windows are running a version of Windows that can handle it (i.e. Windows NT or 2000 or XP or 2003). \n\nIf you're using one of the above OS, the best bet is to format or convert all drives in your system to NTFS. \n\nNTFS has slightly better management of free space to keep fragmentation from becoming as pronounced too soon. \n\n\nTIP:\nThe only time you should bother with FAT32 on a Windows 2000 system is if you are dual-booting between Windows 2000 and Windows 98/Me, or otherwise sharing a hard drive with a system that cannot read NTFS.
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The same thing happened to my computer awhile back.  Your computer has probably lost system files.  I booted to the Windows XP Disk to re-install XP and selected 'Repair an existing XP installation.'  You won't lose any files except any Windows Updates that were released after your copy of Windows.\n\nMake sure you BOOT to the XP CD.  After it checks your system and loads installation files, it will ask if you want to install a fresh copy of XP or REPAIR (not re-install) the existing installation - select Repair.
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Hi,\n\nAt http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1747010,00.asp\nyou have a guide for doing this. \n\nBelow is the first page. Visit the above link and you will see the complete guide. Visit the link for the complete guide.It is from PC Mag. and a good source of info.\n__________________________________________________\nBuild an XP-SP2 Recovery Disc \n01.12.05 \n \n \nIf you have questions about this article, see the answers to some common questions here: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/pcmag. \n  Total posts: 88  \n  \n\nBy David A. Karp  \nOdds are your PC came with a recovery disc, a CD with all the programs and drivers that were installed on its hard drive when it was new. The odds are also that you have absolutely no idea where that disc is.\n\nThe good news is that it probably doesn't matter. First, the recovery discs provided by most PC manufacturers are designed for a single purpose: to restore your computer to the state it was in when you bought it. This process typically involves wiping your hard drive clean and then reinstalling Microsoft Windows and the handful of programs originally included with your PC. Unless you're preparing the whole kit and caboodle to sell on eBay, this is probably not something you'll ever need.\n\n\nSecond, the hardware drivers on your recovery CD are probably out of date, either made obsolete by newer and better versions available online, or simply irrelevant because of new hardware you've installed.\n\nSo, instead of fretting about the old recovery CD, why not take a few minutes and make one of your own?\n\n*** see site for the rest
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Make sure you have the latest servicepack installed (SP2). You'll need it anyways if you wanna keep receiving updates from the Windows site.\nIf the BIOS detects the harddrive in full, start XP and goto Disk Management > Action > Rescan disks and see if it will pick up the correct size.\nIf the BIOS doesn't recognize the harddrive as 320 Gb, you'll need to find an updated BIOS for your motherboard. Check the site of the manufacturer for that (most motherboards made after 2003 will be able to recognize large harddrives).\nAs a last resort, you can goto the website of the manufacturer of the harddrive to see if they have extra drivers that will solve the problem for you.
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check if you have  your disk   in the  ntfs format.\nif yes then you acnt format it in the dos mode.\n\nuse the windows xp installer disk and  it would help you format it  properly.  and delete and make partitions too :)\nlook at the following screen shot\n\nhttp://www.theeldergeek.com/images/XP%20Pro%20Setup%20Graphic/II.gif\n\nHope it answers  your query.\n\nregards paradiso