Just for furthure refrence, what exactly is the diffrence between NTFS & FAT systems?
Gollum1 0 Newbie Poster
Zachery 43 The Geek Father Team Colleague
FAT is an older filesystem that has 2 versions
FAT16 and FAT32
Windows XP can use Fat32.
However if your going to be installing XP i recomend you use NTFS, which is a much better FS overall, as it adds alot of secutiry that FAT does not have.
bentkey 10 Posting Whiz
According to MS NTFS is better in just about every way. Particularly it addresses large hard drives more efficiently. And that was back when a large hard drive was 1 Gig! It's more secure and has more options. So unless you are dual booting with an OS that doesn't read NTFS you should use it.
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
Gollum1 0 Newbie Poster
WoW! thats a lot of replies! Thanks everyone! (now I can pretend know more).
DMR 152 Wombat At Large Team Colleague
TO add to Catweazle's link, here's another:
http://www.techtutorials.com/tutorials/xp/xpfilesystems.shtml
Note that there are different versions of NTFS itself, and not all of those versions are compatible with each other.
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