FAT32 or NTFS

[aragorn6969]

Hi when i installed XP, i could turn my FAT32 drive to a NTFS drive by doing a new NTFS format.
What's the difference?? Which one is better???

thanks

[John Prophet]

Go with ntfs...only with NTFS will you be able to use stuff like file compression and also security stuff like permissions and passwords etc.

NTFS= "New Technology File System"

JP

[Martoch]

You decide!
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Mike

[gentry_joey]

Ill go with ntfs. Im glad i read that not i know the diff. Thx martoch

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

I prefer Fat32, but that's just because you can actually access it if the OS corrupts. (really a pain when you can't back up your information because of a registry file error.)

Just my opinion tho, I use Fat32 for C drive(about 5Gig), NTFS for the other drives. This way I can also ghost an image of the contents, not the complete structure(1Mb file would take an image the size of the complete drive.)

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

I use Fat32 for C drive(about 5Gig), NTFS for the other drives. This way I can also ghost an image of the contents, not the complete structure(1Mb file would take an image the size of the complete drive.)

???

All of my partitions are NTFS. Ghost 2003 can copy to and from NTFS partitions easily.

[John Prophet]

I think there are also boot disks that allow you to get stuff off of NTFS drives....saw on erecently but cant remember where, but there out there.

JP

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

Download knoppix and burn it to a CD. Boot from it, and you can access your NTFS drives (though you can't write to them).