Wizard Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 If I did the *recommended,* I'd be using 1.5 GB for my pagefile, but I don't, I just use 768. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuken Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 isn't NTFS only good for servers and other stuff that needs high security ?? just wondering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 NTFS has lots of advantages. Let's describe each system. FAT (or FAT16) has a 16-bit system of file pointers. There can only be a maximum of 65536 (2**16) clusters. On large drives, this leads to huge clusters. The maximum size of a cluster can be 65536 bytes. This gives a total maximum HD size of 4.2 gigs. On today's computers, that is not very useful. FAT32 was invented for Windows 95. It has a 32-bit system, which means you can have 4.2 billion clusters, or a maximum HD size of 275 terabytes. This will be useful for a number of years. NTFS is said to be unlimited, although I suspect it has the same limitation as FAT32. It has extra features such as on-the-fly compression; on-the-fly encryption of individual folders; security specific on each folder; a drive letter that spans several physical disks; support for RAID; transaction-tracking which allows for repair of a damaged disk; auditing. NT4 can use NTFS and FAT (FAT32 wasn't invented back then) W2K and XP can use all 3 systems. DOS only does FAT Win95/98 can do FAT and FAT32. A tool is available to allow DOS to read NTFS.Another tool allows Win95/98 to read and write NTFS, bypassing the security but no access to encrypted files. Here some links for useful reading about NTFS: http://www.digit-life.com/articles/ntfs/ http://www.ntfs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 It was hard enough just to get NTFS working on a crappy linux box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Windows 95 can't handle FAT32 too well, it does handle it, but poorly (at least OSR2 does). FAT32 was for Windows 98. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 (edited) I have to disagree with you. FAT32 was released in 1996, for win95. Not the very first win95 release though. I've got FAT32 on my win95 box since I bought it back then, and it's always worked perfectly. When I did a win95 course, FAT32 was explained to us, and Win98 had not seen the light of day at that time. I still have the course materials. Edited April 25, 2005 by robbbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Well, on my old computer, I once did a Windows 98 install and switched to FAT32. I wasn't satisfied with what I got, so I reverted back to Windows 95 (OSR2) by completely formatting the HDD. So, during the first boot, I get a message stating "Could not initialize drive C:", but it booted Windows fine despite this. Long story short, Windows totally forgot that LFN exists, so I had to manually rename every single folder that had more than 8 letters. Everything was fine after that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elazul Yagami Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 how do you do the whole pagefile partition thing, and why should i make a page file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 Cinder made a partition for his pagefile for his own reasons. I wouldn't bother, just leave it on your C drive. On my win95 pc, the defragger even defrags the page file. You don't have to make a pagefile, you can let windows manage it for you. I decided to set mine to 800mb on the win95 pc because it does a lot of work. On this machine I just use the internet so the pagefile is only 100mb. There is 512mb of ram which is heaps. The purpose of the pagefile is to be an extension of your ram. If you ran out of memory your system could crash; so windows uses some hard drive space as extra "memory". It swaps out unneeded running programs to the pagefile so it can work on whatever you are doing now. To set it up, go your control panel, system, advanced, performance options, and you can set the min and max sizes. Depending on your ram and what you use the pc for, choose something between 300mb and 1024mb. If you're using the computer some time, and you get a message saying that windows needs to increase the page file size, you'll know you didn't give it enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elazul Yagami Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 so considering i do alot of graphics work, i guess that i should increase it's size... i dunno what size it's currently at...but at any given moment i'm usually doing graphics editing, AND like a zillion other programs are running tasks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 The more memory intensive stuff you do, the larger pagefile the better. But a large pagefile should never be a substitute for RAM. It's more important to have more RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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