FAT32 or NTFS?

[rowell83]

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i have a 250 gig western digital sata hard drive.. which file system should i use for my OS, fat32 or ntfs? well i'm planning to to partition my hard drive into four.anyone?

[bitlord]

NTFS Bro..bati fat32,panahon pa na lapu2x fat32..basta xp os nmo,ntfs gyud nindot :mrgreen:

[poymode]

Unsa man advantage sa ntfs bro?

[rowell83]

thanks bro

[eax]

Unsa man advantage sa ntfs bro?

google it

[Rubix]

Actually, ang NTFS mas effecient ug filling. Its ideal for handling large files and is ideal also when using wnidows XP only disadvantage is that it will not run in DOS. DOS is using FAT32 ra.

[jspar8888]

fat32 if win98, ntfs if windows xp

[stealthghost]

more secured ang NTFS compared sa FAT32 especially if used in networking..

take a look @ this chart:

http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

http://www.ntfs.com/faq.htm

[eax]

NTFS is much better than FAT32. Aside from security, NTFS can support filesize greater than 4GB.

[Visual C#]

FAT32 IIRC cannot handle HDs larger than a certain size (80 GB?)
Yep, NTFS can handle file sizes larger than 4 GB.
NTFS is more secure; you can employ file and folder encryption (XP Pro only) and true file/folder permissions
More resilient to disk read/write errors and can tolerate bad sectors more effectively due to its journaling capability.

If you have Linux, go for reiserFS or ext3. Macs use HFS+.