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Windows has 2 types of files systems, FAT32 and NTFS.
I have to create a dual boot to get GigaSampler to
work with Windows Media Center, so my question is\ufffd.

Does Logic 5x or GigaSampler 3 require a FAT32 or NTFS
file system?

Why would I want one or the other??

Thanks

Chaz

At 02:52 PM 12/14/04 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Windows has 2 types of files systems, FAT32 and NTFS.
>I have to create a dual boot to get GigaSampler to
>work with Windows Media Center, so my question is….
>
>Does Logic 5x or GigaSampler 3 require a FAT32 or NTFS
>file system?
>
>Why would I want one or the other??

Logic 5.x works best with NTFS on all volumes (FAT32 on all volumes works
too but don't mix them or you will get annoying delays when switching into
record).

NTFS is a decent journaling file system which is much less prone to
corruption - it places a small overhead on all operations but is vastly
preferable to FAT32 for handling large volumes and data security.

In case this is all greek - as I understand it,  a journalling system like
NTFS records what operation it is about to do to the file system and then
reports back when it has performed the operation. Should the system crash
or be shutdown during a disk write,  the file system will know what
operation was half complete and be able to recover without corruption of
the FAT etc. No "scandisk" and "searching for crosslinked files" on reboot
after a crash or power outage.

Regards,
Murray

--- Murray McDowall <murraymc@...> wrote:

> At 02:52 PM 12/14/04 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >Windows has 2 types of files systems, FAT32 and
> NTFS.
> >I have to create a dual boot to get GigaSampler to
> >work with Windows Media Center, so my question is\ufffd.
> >
> >Does Logic 5x or GigaSampler 3 require a FAT32 or
> NTFS
> >file system?
> >
> >Why would I want one or the other??
>
   This is a fairly tricky one, on the cubase group
someone posed a similar question in regards to there
Carillon system. It seems Carillon likes to use both
Fat32 and NTFS when building there DAW's. FAT32 for
there system(OS)partition and second partition for
back up reasons. Then format there Audio(music)Drives
using NTFS for its security and larger file sizes. 
-Steve


		
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Steve wrote:
>   This is a fairly tricky one, on the cubase group
>someone posed a similar question in regards to there
>Carillon system. It seems Carillon likes to use both
>Fat32 and NTFS when building there DAW's. FAT32 for
>there system(OS)partition and second partition for
>back up reasons. Then format there Audio(music)Drives
>using NTFS for its security and larger file sizes. 

Hmm - strange because it is mostly the OS partition that gets scrambled.

--- Murray McDowall <murraymc@...> wrote:

> Steve wrote:
> >   This is a fairly tricky one, on the cubase group
> >someone posed a similar question in regards to
> there
> >Carillon system. It seems Carillon likes to use
> both
> >Fat32 and NTFS when building there DAW's. FAT32 for
> >there system(OS)partition and second partition for
> >back up reasons. Then format there
> Audio(music)Drives
> >using NTFS for its security and larger file sizes. 
> 
> Hmm - strange because it is mostly the OS partition
> that gets scrambled.
> 
>  Yes, well I haven't tried this partitioning
sequence myself. I'm just passing along the info that
was given to me by Carillon's Tech. when inquiring as
to why they use both format's.
-Steve



		
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