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Gary D.
Building my own PC and will be installing XP Home (with SP2).
Question: which is recommended - NTFS file system or FAT32?
Question: which is recommended - NTFS file system or FAT32?
Hi
NTFS.
Gary D. said:Building my own PC and will be installing XP Home (with SP2).
Question: which is recommended - NTFS file system or FAT32?
Gary said:Building my own PC and will be installing XP Home (with SP2).
Question: which is recommended - NTFS file system or FAT32?
Personally, I wouldn't even consider using FAT32 when NTFS is an
option. FAT32 has no security capabilities, no compression
capabilities, no fault tolerance, and a lot of wasted hard drive space
on volumes larger than 8 Gb in size. But your computing needs may
vary, and there is no hard and fast answer.
To answer your questions without getting too technical is
difficult, but has been handled quite well by the late Alex Nichol in
the article here:
FAT & NTFS File Systems in Windows XP
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfs.htm
Somewhat more technical information is here:
Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q314463
Choosing Between File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winntas/tips/techrep/filesyst.asp
NTFS file system
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/ntfs/
Raztax said:Not to mention the fact that on a drive larger that 32Gb the
only
option presented is NTFS, because you cannot format drives
larger
than 32GB in Fat32 under Win XP
But anything over 8Gb should be NTFS anyway, more security, and
better use of dsk space.