Nimbus

When trying to capture DV film I've ruun into the 4GB limit in Win98 with FAT32. I've read on the MS website that NTFS is a better File System. But can you convert FAT32 to NTFS? I don't think you can as I can not find it on the MS site...

darlodge

Windows 98 does not support NTFS
Its was designed for NT4.0, W2K and Windows XP only.

Why do you want NTFS anyway if you don't mind me asking?

Darren

darlodge

Doh! Second double post in 2 days

Darren

[Edited by darlodge - 1/27/2003 1:30:45 PM]

MattW

I believe NTFS has better support for large files. Sounds like an upgrade to Win2000 is required!

Nimbus

Well, since you asked twice

FAT32 only allows a mximum file size of 4GB. When I'm capturing DV files from my camcorder this equates to about 15 mins. So I have to limit the capture to this and create separate files. I believe NTFS does not have this low limit.

My other option is to join them back together after converting to MPEG2, which are smaller file sizes.

Thanks anyway

Andrewza

I've been doing something similar recently (DV camcorder ->firewire -> PC), have 5.7GB capture lying round on a fortunately large NTFS partition. So yes it works, at least from Windows Movie Maker (blech) and Vegas Video (Sonic Foundry) I tried, I believe the programs have to support it though.

D'uh, should mention, done on XP Pro, miraculously just plugged it in and worked straight away.

[Edited by Andrewza - 1/27/2003 2:02:18 PM]

jbryant

Dealing with 4Gb files on a Win98 platform must be a nightmare. The file handling of FAT32 is way below that used by W2K/XP. Best go for an upgrade soon!

Joolz