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Old 12-07-2004, 01:48 AM
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i noticed my main hard drive is NTFS and my secondary music drive is fat 32. Is this a problem? should they both be the same? I read it might affect that play button staul I've been getting when I press space bar or 0 or 3 on the key pad. What does everyone else have? and any luck with the play button freezing up with 6.4

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Old 12-07-2004, 01:59 AM
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system drive should always be NTFS
audio drive doesnt realy matter

my audio partition is FAT32 and system/data is NTFS but i havnt noticed any difference between FAT32 and NTFS on the audio drive

in theory FAT32 will run faster for audio as you can use a larger cluster size which means less disk i/o in practice it doesnt make a noticeable difference
FAT32 is also limited to 32GB (someone correct me if the figure is wrong) and has some name limitations but again they shouldnt matter

if its working just leave it how it is
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Old 12-07-2004, 09:53 AM
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I didn't used to have a problem with the play button but it seems to be getting worse. It is pretty bad now and is QUITE annoying when I'm trying to work. I'm using NTFS on all my drives.
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Old 12-07-2004, 09:59 AM
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If you wish to use any external drives to take to a Mac (such as for a final mix on HD), you'll need the appropriate partition to be FAT32 for the Mac to be able to read it.
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Old 12-08-2004, 04:52 PM
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Default Re: NTFS vs FAT 32

Ok pretty interesting.
I was speaking to a rep and e made me try doing a session on my system drive instead of my secondary drive to see if the play button would freeze.
Well it worked fine leaving me to believe its a problem with my music hard drive. They are both on the same wire in the computer. Can i change one to master an one to slave to see if this helps. or the system has to be the master?
i have 2 wetern digital 120 gig drives.7200 .. the newer one seams to staul the play button.
They are both DMA enabled. and all the tweaks were done as recommended. Still staulling since 6.4 download on the D drive. any other suggestions?
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Old 12-08-2004, 09:19 PM
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system drive should always be the primary master
i find it best for the audio drive to be the secondary master (or use SATA) and then put CD/DVD drives as slaves
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Old 12-08-2004, 10:30 PM
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FAT32 is also limited to 32GB (someone correct me if the figure is wrong) and has some name limitations but again they shouldnt matter


it's more around the range of 113GB
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Old 12-08-2004, 10:55 PM
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Keep guessing, then get the facts:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314463
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Old 12-08-2004, 11:34 PM
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If you wish to use any external drives to take to a Mac (such as for a final mix on HD), you'll need the appropriate partition to be FAT32 for the Mac to be able to read it.
macs can read NTFS, also, windows can read HFS (after a 3rd party app installation).
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Old 12-09-2004, 10:33 AM
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Keep guessing, then get the facts:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314463

That isn't entirely true. That is an artificial limit placed on the max size of a new fat32 partition in XP. If you have another way to create the partition you can make one bigger than 32 gigs. They added that limit because fat32 becomes rather inefficient at sizes bigger than 32 gigs. FAT32 is dead anyway. There's no real reason to use it on fixed disks any more, unless you're still dual booting win9x or something.

Last time I did some performance tests of NTFS vs FAT32, NTFS had a read speed that was significantly higher than FAT32.

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