Main Diff between Fat & Ntfs

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griffin

hi,
circumstance:::::: running win98 & xp on same partitioned drive.

without going into too much detail, is the main difference between
fat32 & ntfs all to do with Security?
is/are there many or any other benefits to having ntfs on an xp o/s
if running win98 as the prime o/s, especially if win98 is the only one
with access to the internet?
i think it is great that i can see both o/s's from explorer, can drag
& drop to hearts content.
i installed xp (finally) tonight, and i wanted it to have winzip so i
switched to win98, connected, downloaded it, and made the d/l
point to a folder that i had made in xp.

branched a bit, but really, is it only xp's superiority regarding
security that makes ntfs the better way to go......?

ta
griff
 
griffin said:
hi,
circumstance:::::: running win98 & xp on same partitioned drive.

without going into too much detail, is the main difference between
fat32 & ntfs all to do with Security?
is/are there many or any other benefits to having ntfs on an xp o/s
if running win98 as the prime o/s, especially if win98 is the only one
with access to the internet?
i think it is great that i can see both o/s's from explorer, can drag
& drop to hearts content.
i installed xp (finally) tonight, and i wanted it to have winzip so i
switched to win98, connected, downloaded it, and made the d/l
point to a folder that i had made in xp.

branched a bit, but really, is it only xp's superiority regarding
security that makes ntfs the better way to go......?

ta
griff
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I hope you mean on two separate partitions. Running two operating systems on
one partition is just asking for trouble. 9x/ME based operating systems
cannot read from, nor write to, NTFS formatted partitions. So, if you
changed the XP file system to NTFS you'd lose the ability to boot to 98.
 
griffin said:
hi,
circumstance:::::: running win98 & xp on same partitioned drive.

without going into too much detail, is the main difference between
fat32 & ntfs all to do with Security?
is/are there many or any other benefits to having ntfs on an xp o/s
if running win98 as the prime o/s, especially if win98 is the only one
with access to the internet?
i think it is great that i can see both o/s's from explorer, can drag
& drop to hearts content.
i installed xp (finally) tonight, and i wanted it to have winzip so i
switched to win98, connected, downloaded it, and made the d/l
point to a folder that i had made in xp.

branched a bit, but really, is it only xp's superiority regarding
security that makes ntfs the better way to go......?

ta
griff
Click to expand...


Personally, I wouldn't even consider using FAT32 when NTFS is an
option. FAT32 has no security capabilities, no compression
capabilities, no fault tolerance, and a lot of wasted hard drive space
on volumes larger than 8 Gb in size. But your computing needs may
vary, and there is no hard and fast answer.

To answer your questions without getting too technical is
difficult, but has been handled quite well by the late Alex Nichol in
the article here:

FAT & NTFS File Systems in Windows XP
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfs.htm

Somewhat more technical information is here:

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q314463

Choosing Between File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winntas/tips/techrep/filesyst.asp

NTFS file system
http://www.digit-life.com/articles/ntfs/

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No fault tolerence is wrong. Fat has two copies of the Fat. That is very much more than NTFS. NTFS is transacted for metadata.
 
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