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"Mixing" FAT and NTSF--Please Help a Moron Understand
Okay, I bought a WD 80GB on sale at Office Max for $100. Now the
extent of my stupidity will become clear. How does adding another drive, with a different file partition system, "mix" with the original (internal) C: drive? In other words, what does the sweet little C: drive care if a big sugar daddy E: drive moves in to the computer, if the big sugar daddy doesn't "give" her anything? Wow, I should write romance novels. I bought this WD to edit movies and burn DVDs (I only had 20 gigs on my ThinkPad); the movie editing program suggested at least 40. I just don't understand how those extra 80 GBs will "help" the internal drive do all that work if they have "nothing in common." What is the "bridge" between the two drives and the two file systems? I feel like a beauty-school drop-out instead of a computer school drop-out! |
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Gary L. wrote:
I'd recommend re-formatting the drive using the NTFS file system for use with large video files. How do you do dat? |
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Andrew Rossmann wrote:
Something very helpful and kind. Thank you very much for responding. |
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I got some excellent advice from the last person who responded, but
when it came to labelling the volume, I pooped out. I know as a computer school drop-out, I should really understand how a volume is different from a drive, and how a volume can be on two drives, etc., but I don't. What does it mean to label a volume, and why do you have to do it? *Really?* (Please look at title of thread before responding.) |
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In article .com,
says... I got some excellent advice from the last person who responded, but when it came to labelling the volume, I pooped out. I know as a computer school drop-out, I should really understand how a volume is different from a drive, and how a volume can be on two drives, etc., but I don't. What does it mean to label a volume, and why do you have to do it? *Really?* The volume label is just the 'name' of the drive. When you look at it in explorer, it's shown instead of a generic 'fixed drive' name or similar. You can also change it in explorer by simply right clicking the drive letter and choosing rename. Instead of using the Format command from the command prompt, you can also right-click the drive in explorer and choose Format... If you want to keep existing data, then you have to use CONVERT from the command line. -- If there is a no_junk in my address, please REMOVE it before replying! All junk mail senders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!! http://home.att.net/~andyross |
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Andrew Rossmann wrote:
The volume label is just the 'name' of the drive. When you look at it in explorer, it's shown instead of a generic 'fixed drive' name or similar. You can also change it in explorer by simply right clicking the drive letter and choosing rename. Thanks again, Andrew. When I couldn't name the volume successfully in DOS, I found a new program on XP's Help; I think it was called Drive Management. Anyway, I was able to format the new drive through this XP program. Happy New Year! |
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"Gary L." wrote in message ... On 29 Dec 2004 16:06:02 -0800, wrote: Okay, I bought a WD 80GB on sale at Office Max for $100. Now the extent of my stupidity will become clear. I bought this WD to edit movies and burn DVDs (I only had 20 gigs on my ThinkPad); the movie editing program suggested at least 40. I just don't understand how those extra 80 GBs will "help" the internal drive do all that work if they have "nothing in common." What is the "bridge" between the two drives and the two file systems? Simply have your video editing software store the files on the e: drive (or whatever drive letter is assigned to the external drive. Create a directory on the e: drive and set that as the default for the video editing program to use. BTW, the external Western Digital 80 GB drives that I've seen come with the drive formatted as FAT32. If you're using Windows NT/2000/XP, I'd recommend re-formatting the drive using the NTFS file system for use with large video files. footnote They come formatted as FAT32 so they can be recognized by other systems. |
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