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Windows 2000 in NTSF or FAT32?

Go here for some good info Win2k Mag.

Personally if you're not dual booting Win98, I would use NTFS. I dual boot Linux, and I use NTFS and all my Win2k partitions.
 
The ONLY time I"ve had a problem with any Win2k installation was when I set it up on Fat32.. I have no idea why, but things didn't want to work.

It was designed for NTFS, so I run it in that mode and have no problems. Who cares if windows 98 can't see that particular partition.. I don't want it to 🙂
 
I actually tried FAT32 after I asked everyone which format to use, FAT32 so far has been completely fine, the OS works just great and is not any slower or anything out of the ordinary. it's excellent as FAT32, no diff that I can tell in performance/compatibility from NTFS.

what would downsides to FAT32 to be? I haven't seen any..
 
Tests have proven, and if you search on the forum you will see, that NTFS is not only more secure it is faster.

Use NTFS.
 
This issue has been discussed extensively in the past, but I will put in another vote for NTFS. It is the superior system. I use both fat32 and NTFS partitions under win2k on various machines, and NTFS is the system of choice. However, if there are particular reasons for wanting to use fat32 (required to see win2k partition from win9x, for example), then you should be able to use fat32 without any particular problems, win2k will work fine.

The exception is if you are using win2k as a server, in which case you will find NTFS is virtually a requirement. In fact it is required for active directory, which is highly useful if you are running win2k server.
 
downsides to not using NTFS?
NTFS has file and folder level security with NTFS Permissions, encryption, compression, disk quotas, and it supports remote storage, dynamic volumes...
FAT32 has no file level security, the only security on files is the shared folders option, and it supports dual booting.
You dont need to reformat or reinstall Windows 2000 to get to NTFS from FAT32... i think the command is convert.exe or something.. i dont remember at the moment
 
From a command window: CONVERT [drive:] /fs:ntfs

Insert your drive or partition you want converted into the [drive:] area. In reality it should look like this CONVERT D: /fs:ntfs

Note that if you execute this command on a partition where win 2k is installed or a swap file is used, the conversion won't happen till you reboot cause it can't work on files while they are in use.

One last thing: once you convert to ntfs from fat32 you can't convert back. Its format and reinstall if you decide that's what you want to do.

Luck!
 
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