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is there an advantage of using NTFS over FAT32 for Win2000??

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Is there any kind of advantage of using NTFS over FAT32 when installing Win2000? Is there any kind of speed increase or better file management or what? Thanks.
 
I would say that if you want a more secure system then go with NTFS. As for speed, Fat32 and NTFS are just about equal. You probably would never notice a difference in speed.

If you want to be able to read the partitions from 95/98/ME then you need to use Fat32.

Jim
 
I say NFTS blows away FAt32...try using the search feature for this question there is a tom of info on this board about it.

Ausm
 
ntsf is definitely more stable, however, if you are not familiar with this system of file paritation, you will have hard time with formating the harddrive back to fat32.(unless you know how to use fdisk)
 
the fat table in ntfs is actually a binary tree, the one for fat32 is a huge array, so search times should be somewhat lower in ntfs. also ntfs lends itself to less fragmentation from what i hear. don't know if that's true though.
 


<< You can store larger files in NTFS. If you are doing video this may come into play. >>



whats the limit on FAT32? I've never run into a prob with my DV cam recording onto my computer in AVI....
 
the limit for a file in fat32 is a couple of terabytes from what i've read. although the file limit avi files is 2 gigs.
 
Here we go again....

FAT 32
FAT32 is an enhanced version of the FAT file system that can be used on drives from 512 megabytes (MB) to 32 GB in size. FAT and FAT32 offer compatibility with operating systems other than Windows 2000. If you're setting up a dual-boot configuration, you should probably use FAT or FAT32.

If you're dual booting Windows 2000 and another operating system, choose a file system based on the other operating system, using the following criteria:

Format the partition as FAT if the installation partition is smaller than 2 gigabytes (GB), or if you're dual booting Windows 2000 with MS-DOS®, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT.

Use FAT32 for use on partitions that are 2 GB or larger. If you choose to format using FAT during Windows 2000 Setup and your partition is greater than 2 GB, Setup automatically formats it as FAT32.

It's recommended that you use NTFS rather than FAT32 for partitions larger than 32 GB, or at least Microsoft recommends that you do so.

NTFS

The NTFS file system is the recommended file system for use with Windows 2000. NTFS has all of the basic capabilities of FAT, and it provides the following advantages over the FAT and FAT 32 file systems:

1. Better file security.

2. Support for disk compression.

3. Support for large hard disks, up to 2 terabytes (TB).(The maximum drive size for NTFS is much greater than that for FAT, and as drive size increases, performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.)

If you're using a dual-boot configuration (using both Windows 2000 and another operating system on the same computer), you may not be able to gain access to files on NTFS partitions from the other operating system on your computer. For this reason, you should probably use FAT32 or FAT if you want a dual-boot configuration. The NTFS used by Windows 2000 is not compatible with the version used by Windows NT4.
 

FAT32 = 2 terabytes, and max of basic 4 primaries partitions on a drive, or 3 primaries &amp; 1 Extended with 4 nested Logical drive (max total 7 partions per HDD)

NTFS = 16 terabytes, and max 26 volumes (drives and/or partitions), and support Dynamic Drive - Span Volume, Stript Set, Mirror, RAID-5, Disk Quota, Spases File, Sparse Point, USN Journal, File Security &amp; Encryption.

MS Comparison FAT32 vs. NTFS.



johneetrash - Yes you can share files over the network with any Windows NT/2K compatible clients.


 
if i had a win2k box and a win98se box on a lan, and the win2k was ntfs, would the win98se box still be able to view/get files from the win2k box?
 
Yes, the Win98SE box will be able to access files over the network from a Win2K NTFS partition.
 
I use NTFS, on my C:/ with Win2k, but all my media is still on a 23gig SCSI drive with FAT32. I read mp3's, mix video, the whole mess and over on the FAT32 partition when running Win2k off of the C:/. I had ripped almost all 1,000 of my CD's... I wasn't about to lose them! It's the best of both worlds really. And wow, is Win2k faster than 98SE. I'm slowly moving all programs over to the NTFS drive.
 
&quot;FAT32 is an enhanced version of the FAT file system that can be used on drives from 512 megabytes (MB) to 32 GB in size.&quot;

The size limit for a FAT32 partition is 2 terabytes. 32GB is the FAT32 limit for win2k diskmanager. Win2k can mount FAT32 partitions that are larger than 32GB, it just can't create them. Reason being that MS wants you to use NTFS if you are creating a partition that large.

&quot;Format the partition as FAT if the installation partition is smaller than 2 gigabytes (GB).&quot;

This is not recommended. There is no benefit to using FAT over FAT32 in a modern OS that supports FAT32. A 2GB FAT partition uses 32k clusters, a 2GB FAT32 partition uses 4k clusters.

&quot;It's recommended that you use NTFS rather than FAT32 for partitions larger than 32 GB, or at least Microsoft recommends that you do so.&quot;

I think they are more than recommending this when they intentionally won't let you create larger than 32GB FAT32 partitions.

The file size limit for FAT32 partition in Win98/95 is 4GB. You will also see a limit 2GB. The reason for this is that certain file formats store information is 32bit numbers. This gives an effective range of -2 billion to 2 billion. Since there obviously can't be negative file size, the bottom half is wasted. I assume to reach the 4GB limit, though I don't know for sure, the negative is dropped and added on to the postive. Win2k/WinNT do not have this limit regardless of the file system.
 
Argh....I'm going to have to revise that pre-prepared answer of mine. There are too many holes in it, and the MSKB is not consistent in some areas....😱:disgust:😕
 
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