Several years ago I had XP working from sda1. Then when working on my new sdc drive, gparted would stall, and only after about 10 minutes show only sdb & sdc. I ended up running chkdsk on sda1. XP booted faster and gparted worked again. It seems now the NTFS drivers do show the partitions but may show errors now in gparted. I think it is the same for FAT32.
Part of the reason FAT32 is faster is that it has no journal, so recovery takes longer and is less likely in case of partition issues, particularly power failure or abnormal shutdowns. FAT32 also has a maximum file size of 4GB.
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