What are Master File Table Records?????

[Al Dykes]

Runs fine, not as well as NTFS, good for smaller partitions where you don't
need security, efs or compression. Yes, there is *a* dos (disk operating
system) prompt, you have diskpart in place of fdisk and you can format a 2Gb
partition as FAT16 if you really need to (as in, dual or triple booting for
older applications)

And you'll live with FAT32's 4GB file size limit. The only place I see
this being a ,imitation is big video files, and the big files created
by backup utilities.

Run NTFS unless it's unavoidable.

 

[Al Dykes]

I've never said, and never will say it is a good practice, don't put words
into my mouth. I know of organisations that *need* dual-booting between
MS-DOS and Windows XP, in one case: an application for checking tracks
(railway) that only runs under MS-DOS, so the laptops dual-boot to either
MS-DOS or Windows XP. Another case: an application that monitors and runs a
heart monitor (health organisation), again, only runs under MS-DOS,
therefore needs a dual-boot. Dual booting does make sense in some cases, the
way you come across in this thread is as an ill-informed fool.

The answer for 99% of the people that have dusty applications is
VMWare, which has been around for several years, or Microsoft's
recent PC Virtual Machine or Virtual Server products.

For $99 bucks you'll never have to dual boot or use FATxx again.