Clusters!!!!!
Adequate unallocated space The disk must be formatted with NTFS
Quota
Quota
Probably not. There is a decent chance of corruption / data loss. it is better to back up your files, delete the partition, and create a new NTFS partition instead. ---------- Depends. It's recommended that you back up any important data on the disk. The down fall with FAT32 and NTFS is that FAT32 cannot interpret anything larger than 32GiB Volumes on the Hard Disk. FAT32 Volumes are becoming the primitive Format. However, older machines which use obsolete hardware won't be able to understand the NTFS Structured Volumes. xyr0x
Disk Defragmentation
False - you can set the quotas with NTFS.
How would you set up disk quotas on a drive formatted with FAT32? Answer: You must have NTFS to be able to enforce disk quotas, so the drive must first be converted to NTFS.
Windows 2000 and XP computers utility for formatting only supports 32GB formatting for fat32. However, FAT32 allows up to 2TB of space to be formatted from ntfs. So most likely your using XP. Search Google for "Disk Format Utilities" and you can find ones that will format your drive from ntfs to fat32 without losing space.
NTFS
Yes. It's the only way you can set disk quotas.
The NTFS file system,introduced with first version of Windows NT,is a completely different file system from FAT. It provides for greatly incresed security,file-by-file compression,quotas,and even encryption. The NTFS file system is generally not compatible with other operating systems installed on the same computer,nor is it availablewhen you have booted a computer from a floppy disk..
How would you set up disk quotas on a drive formatted with FAT32? Answer: You must have NTFS to be able to enforce disk quotas, so the drive must first be converted to NTFS.