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03-14-2005, 06:00 PM
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FAT32 or NTFS
Which file system is better FAT32 or NTFS im installing XP home and i am using a 80 GIG hard drive
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03-14-2005, 06:12 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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NTFS.
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03-14-2005, 06:13 PM
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NTFS.
FAT32 belongs to Win98/ME and XP supports it only for compatibility reasons. If XP will be your only OS, use NTFS. RJ
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03-15-2005, 08:37 AM
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sorry if this is offtopic but, what the difference?
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03-15-2005, 08:46 AM
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NTFS is much more stable and reliable, it has no file size limit other than the size of the partition itself, and it is a much better performer when you have many folders, subfolders and files, and also fragmentation on an NTFS volume does not affect the performance as much as with FAT32. NTFS also has some security features, and it uses smaller cluster sizes, thus using the space more efficiently.
And last not least, even though FAT32 itself can support up to 2 TB, Windows XP supports only 32 GB with FAT32, so in XP you can't even create a whole 80 GB partition with FAT32. RJ Last edited by RJ; 03-15-2005 at 08:50 AM. |
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03-15-2005, 04:28 PM
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NTFS For all that reasons that you already got!!!
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03-15-2005, 04:45 PM
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