Partition Converting Question

[Paul Howarth]

M.Rudra wrote:
> My Win XP blew out and fat32 data was inaccesible as the OS would not
> boot. I saved all teh data in ntfs and used linux to access (copy)
> data and save it on linux partition, reformated my disk and we were
> fine. my question : is ntfs more secure than fat32 ? In the event of a
> crash what other options do we have to retrieve data.? thanks, MR

NTFS is more rebust than FAT and recovers better from crashes.

If you have a screwed up FAT32 partition you'd be best off using a 
Windows disk repair tool to try to fix it.

Paul.