NTFS versus FAT32

Hi All,

I'd like to here some of the pro's and con's of NTFS and FAT32.

I,m using xp pro with a 20gb and 6.4gb hard drive.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

BTW glad the bbs is back online.

TIA,

Tom

 

Hey Tom,
- Much more secure. NTFS partitions cannot be "seen" or accessed by an OS on a FAT partition.
- XP and Win2k run a little faster under FAT32, however, if you have 128 MB RAM or more, there's no noticable increase in performance.
- NTFS is a little tricky to get rid of, if you want to change the partition into a FAT32.
- Windows2000 or XP w/ NTFS = Much more stable system than with a FAT partition.
- NTFS handles large partition size more easily than FAT partitions. Please note that FAT16 partitions have a 2.0 gig maximum size for a single partition.

If anyone else reads this post, please feel free to add more to this list, correct what I've said, or just comment on it..

 

Thanks

Thank you Archang31 and Arie.

I appreciate your input.

Tom

 

I found that I liked NTFS but with a dual boot system, when in w98se it didn't see the ntfs partition and chg the drive letters and was annoying problem for me so I chg back to fat32 using PM.

Ossa