NTFS version in XP Pro

[Alan C. Brown]

I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S702 Laptop with Win XP Pro pre-installed by
Toshiba.

What is the NTFS version used in XP Pro ?

Thank you

Alan C. Brown

 

[Haus]

Hello
You need to explain yourself a little more, not really sure as to what it is
you are asking.
NTFS is a file system designed for Windows NT, 2000, XP Pro & Home edition,
it can also use Fat32.

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[Haus]

Hello
Maybe this will help
http://www.ntfs.com/


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[Tom Porterfield]

I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S702 Laptop with Win XP Pro
pre-installed by Toshiba.

What is the NTFS version used in XP Pro ?

3.1. See the following for more info:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...2003/all/deployguide/en-us/acicd_sys_sfto.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...rv/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_ntfs_how.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../2003/all/deployguide/en-us/acicb_ui_vnbx.asp

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[Papa]

Very good question. Read the following URL on the evolution of NTFS, but it
may not pinpoint the exact version number for Windows XP Pro.

The URL is http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/ver-c.html

Hope this helps.

 

[Alan C. Brown]

From the little bit of reading I have done ("New Technology File System" in
My PC Guide), it's my understanding that there are at least 3 versions

NTFS 3.1 used in the original Windows NT
NTFS 1.1/4.0 used in Windows NT4
NTFS 5.0 used in Windows 2000, and I think also in Windows XP, since XP is
supposed to be based on W2000 (isn't it ?).

The reason I asked, is that I used Partition Magic 7 to repartition the Hard
drive in my Toshiba Satellite 5105-S702 laptop when I first got it in Aug
2002.
The other day I checked the partition information using the "Partition Info"
tool in PM7, and it shows the NTFS version to be 3.1, which was a big
surprise. I had expected it to be version 5.0.

Alan C. Brown
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[Alan C. Brown]

Thanks. The "NTFS vs FAT" table has both NTFS 5 & NTFS listed for Windows
XP. The "NTFS" is presumambly NTFS 4, which is used in Windows NT (NT4 ?),
which is listed together with Windows XP.

Does that mean that both versions of NTFS are offered in XP, or
alternatively that there are 2 versions of XP with 2 different NTFS
versions?

Alan C. Brown
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[Alan C. Brown]

Thank you very much. I had read that already, and that's where I got the
impression that there are at least 3 versions of NTFS.

Alan C. Brown
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[Alan C. Brown]

Thanks for your reply. Your first reference states :

"NTFS 3.1. Be sure that your disk-imaging program supports NTFS 3.1, which
is the version of NTFS used by Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
Professional."

So I guess that's the answer.

There's alot of useful info in those references, especially the 2nd one.

Does XP Home use a different NTFS version ?

Alan C. Brown
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[Al Dykes]

Thanks for your reply. Your first reference states :

"NTFS 3.1. Be sure that your disk-imaging program supports NTFS 3.1, which
is the version of NTFS used by Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
Professional."

So I guess that's the answer.

There's alot of useful info in those references, especially the 2nd one.

Does XP Home use a different NTFS version ?

NTFS has a version number unrelated to the version # associated with
Nt/w2k/XP. you only care if you are removing a NTFS-formatted disk
drive from one PC and installing it into a PC running an OS that
predates the OS of the first machine.

I recall that MS has issued, at least once, a service pack that
updated the NTFS version # for all the disks. It was early-NT4 days.
The README said that you could have file system problems if you had a
dual-boot machine. I assume XP/home and XP/pro use the same NTFS
version. I hope so.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Thanks for your reply. Your first reference states :

"NTFS 3.1. Be sure that your disk-imaging program supports NTFS 3.1,
which is the version of NTFS used by Windows Server 2003 and Windows
XP Professional."

So I guess that's the answer.

It is. As you have found though, there are several references out there
that tie the NTFS version to the Windows version. Truth is that earlier
versions of NTFS did not report a version number, so tieing it to the OS
version made sense in a way although also creates confusion around this
subject. The current version of NTFS does report a version number, which is
3.1.

There's alot of useful info in those references, especially the 2nd
one.

Does XP Home use a different NTFS version ?

No, it is the same version. What you have in XP Pro that is missing from XP
Home in the area of the file system is that XP Pro supports EFS (encrypting
file system) and Home does not. Info, if you're interested, can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/cryptfs.mspx.

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[Alex Nichol]

I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S702 Laptop with Win XP Pro pre-installed by
Toshiba.

What is the NTFS version used in XP Pro ?

Nomenclature in NTFS is a bit confused - it was originally numbered in
an independent series that meant it was a lower number than the system
it was installed on. With Win2000 this seems to have been abandoned,
and it is now usually referred to by the system's own number (5.0 for
Win2000, 5.1 for XP). You may run into some old reference to being 'at
least' some other number - in which case XP is later. If it refers
explicitly to something like 3.5 *only* then be suspicious of it

 

[Alan C. Brown]

The other day I checked the partition information using the "Partition Info"
tool in PM7, and it shows the NTFS version to be 3.1, which was a big
surprise. I had expected it to be version 5.0.

I thought that NTFS 3.1 was for the original Windows NT.

Now you say that it should be 5.1.

Why am I getting this contradiction in PM7 ?

Where in XP Pro can I find out what the NTFS version is ?

Alan C. Brown

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[Alex Nichol]

The other day I checked the partition information using the "Partition Info"
tool in PM7, and it shows the NTFS version to be 3.1, which was a big
surprise. I had expected it to be version 5.0.

I thought that NTFS 3.1 was for the original Windows NT.

Now you say that it should be 5.1.

Why am I getting this contradiction in PM7 ?

See Tom Porterfield's post - I didn't know that NTFS in XP was now
reporting a version. PM really ought to work on the OS version number.
However I would not trust a version of PM prior to 8.0 with XP NTFS