FAT or NTFS?

[Juan Ignacio]

Hi,
I have read in one of the "Windows XP Embedded Tips"
(Deploying a Windows XP Embedded Runtime), that the boot
partition must be formatted as FAT or FAT32. I have tested
my runtime image with a NTFS partition and it is working
fine, so I would like to know if FAT is mandatory or not.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

No FAT is not mandatory, but it is less chattier than NTFS.
There are few registry keys that will make NTFS less chattier (to prevent it
from writing every file access time).

If you are using EWF than this will allow you less memory consumption (not
significant one, but still the less the better).

If you partition and format disk from Win XP (probably same for Win 2000)
you will have bootable disk whether you decide to use either FAT or NTFS.


Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Gordon Smith \(eMVP\)]

Hi,
I have read in one of the "Windows XP Embedded Tips"
(Deploying a Windows XP Embedded Runtime), that the boot
partition must be formatted as FAT or FAT32. I have tested
my runtime image with a NTFS partition and it is working
fine, so I would like to know if FAT is mandatory or not.

Thanks in advance.

FAT is not mandatory.