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Which os is best for ripping?I can dual boot both XP OR WIN98SE but there's no need to set programs in both if one is better than the other.TIA
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I've never had any problems using WinXP using SmartRipper.
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Member
- Jan 2002
- State of Confusion
Unless your ripped files are each under 4GB, the choice is fairly obvious.
As Churchill famously predicted when Chamberlain returned from Munich proclaiming peace in his time: "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war." -
It's really not ovious so what does rip size matter?
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winXP with NTFS format can handle very large filesize better than win98, I believe.
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Max filesize under 98 is 4 gig (2 gig if you want to copy or move it), XP is some ungodly number. XP is also more stable.
Some progs not designed for XP exhibit some quirks, but that's where the development is going, 98 is a dead horse as far as major new software goes. -
Which is better NTFS or FAT32?
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NTFS. It supports huge drives and files, encryption, compression, ACLs (filesystem-level security), and I think it has some form of journaling. As I recall it also doesn't fragment as quickly as FAT32, and it tends to handle fragmentation better. FAT32 is what you get when you take a filesystem designed to work with floppies and keep patching it to work with bigger and bigger drives.Originally Posted by jgg4Which is better NTFS or FAT32?
The only real down side is that once you go with NTFS, you can no longer use any non-NT version of Windows without reformatting or jumping through some hoops. DOS, 95, 98, and ME will be unable to read an NTFS volume without installing a third-party driver. -
Thanks for all the great help.
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Be careful before you convert your drive to NTFS or install winXP with NTFS , though. Once you go that route, It's not as easy as format and install win98 to come back to FAT32. Make sure you know or have a guide how to convert NTFS to FAT32 (you can search about convert NTFS in google).
My suggestion (if you wanna try winXP) install winXP under FAT32 instruction. Test winXP with all your software, hardware, devices and game (complatible issue). If you like it and wanna keep it then you can convert FAT32 to NTFS as easy as use window explorer without any loosing of data. -
Using Win2k here, but I kept FAT32 on the SCSI boot drive, and use NTSF on a secondary IDE drive where all my encoding takes place. This allows me to use large file sizes, and I'm still able to boot with a Win98 disk if I need to recover any files on my boot drive.
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The Old One
- Aug 2000
- Hellas (Greece), E.U.
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Same Combo here...
I use win2K, by far better XP.
Also, there are certain tasks only avalaible to win 98SE users.
One thing all users may face in the near future: Have you ever tried to RIP a SVCD/CVD/xSVCD with WinXP or Win2K? There are problems many times!
NTFS is better fat 32 overall. But I suggest to keep a small partition of your HD as fat 32, and install w98se. it is always usefull! -
Win2000 might be far more stable than XP but my concern is complatibility, espeically when upgrade from old system.
I have to 2 hdds, Main one I have XP with NTFS, but I also spare 3 GB for FAT32. For 2nd hdds, I dedicate to win98SE Thai edition, just for the sake of lanuage and future need. -
What kind of problems? I've extracted MPEGs from SVCDs in Windows 2000 several times.Originally Posted by SatStorm
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The Old One
- Aug 2000
- Hellas (Greece), E.U.
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@sterno:
well,sometimes, an mpeg 2 when it is ripped to a NTFS HD, looks like broken! Rip the same file to win98SE and your mpeg is okey. It happens sometimes!
I have many xSVCDs (D4 SVCD), with 20 videos each. When I do a collection for a friend, sometimes and with certain low quality brands, I experience this problem if I rip a track from my xSVCD at w2k/xp. The same disc have no problem with w98se. If I remember correct, this has to do with if you raw copy from CD (16 fat) to HD (ntfs) or something. Anyway, it happens to me once in a while and W98SE saves the day!
@ ya_jai:
yes you 're right! I tent to forget that most of the users don't have dedicated PC for encoding like me!
But I still don't think that winXP give you more compatibility right now than Win2K, so why someone rush the upgrade?. I am doing all my jobs excellent with w2k.
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