wht is diffrence between NTFS & FAT32 ?
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When introducing Windows NT, Microsoft needed a faster and more stable file system than FAT. NTFS uses clusters to store data as well but the clusters can vary in size minimizing the loss (FAT's clusters is locked to a specific size). \nNTFS splits the drive into four theoretical parts. The first part, MFT (Master File Table), contains important information about the files, free space and so forth. Then comes an area that can be used for storage, until we reach the exact middle of the drive. Here a copy of the first 16 MFT-files are stored again, and then we have another area where you can store data. \nNTFS can contrary to FAT, compress and encrypt data stored on the drive. It also has a much higher fault tolerance then FAT. NTFS has gotten a bad reputation as a rather slow file system. The truth is that it is rather memory reliant, so on system with 512 memory and up NTFS gets significantly faster. Unfortunately only NT-based Windows can read NTFS. \n\nFAT exists in basically two flavors: FAT16 and FAT32. FAT16 holds cluster information based on 16 bits of information, and FAT32 uses 32 bits to manage the storage space. As a result, FAT16 can manage 65535 clusters and FAT32 can handle a maximum of 268435456 clusters, for a maximum storage capacity of 2GB and 2TB respectively. FAT16's maximum file size is 2GB while FAT32's maximum file size is 4 GB. \n\nThere have been going around a rumour that FAT would actually be faster than NTFS. This was true as long as your system was very poorly equipped with RAM, which happened at about the launch of Windows XP. Not only did the OS itself require a lot of RAM, 128MB, to run ok, but to be able to play games and such you needed at least twice that and NTFS had to take a lot of the fault for that. However as long as you use 256MB RAM and up NTFS is just as fast and even faster when you get past 512MB, which most people most likely have today
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Check this\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
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Depends on what operating system and file system you use.\n\nOn Windows, your disk need to be running the NTFS file system. If you're running FAT32, you cannot password protect files or folders.\n\nGiven you run NTFS, you can right-click on a folder and choose "Sharing and security". From there, click the "Security" tab. Here you can specify which users should have access to the folder.
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steller phonics FAT and NTFS
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Sounds like the problem is in the thumb drive.\n\nAre both the PC's running the same file system (FAT32 vs NTFS)?\n\n///
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If you drive is formatted using FAT16 the drive can store 512 files in a root folder, when 512 files are in the root the drive is "full". A FAT12 drive can store 224 files in the root folder before being "full". Both FAT32 and NTFS file systems have no limit on the number of files in the root folder, however there are file number limits, in other words you can have space left but have the maximum number of files that teh file system type can track. \n\nQuestions to ask to figure this out include:\nOverall hard drive size as labeled by manufacturer.\nPartitioning scheme.\nFile system type.\nTotal number of files on the drive.\n\nFrank
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XP uses NTFS which may not require a chkdisk,  It may also be doing it in the background and not telling you.
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What exactly do you mean?  Do you mean the index of the files in your ntfs partition? Do you mean the boot.ini file that determines which partition you boot from? Or something else?
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I would do NTFS.\n\nNTFS may be faster...\n   - smaller RAM footprint as avoids large FAT held in RAM\n   - indexed design more efficient for many files per directory\n   - small file data embedded in dir level, avoids seek to data chain\n   - above factors make fragmentation less onerous than for FATxx\n   - 4k cluster size matches processor's natural paging size\n...or slower...\n   - extra overhead of security checks, compression, encryption\n   - small clusters may fragment data cluster chains\n\nNTFS may be safer...\n   - transaction rollback cleanly undoes interrupted operations\n   - file-level permissions can protect data against malware etc.\n   - automatically "fixes" failing clusters on the fly (controversial)\n...or more at risk...\n   - no interactive file system checker (a la Scandisk) for NTFS\n   - no maintenance OS for NTFS\n   - malware can drill right through NTFS protection, e.g. Witty\n   - transaction rollback does not preserve user data\n   - transaction rollback does not help other causes of corruption\n   - more limited range of maintenance tools\n   - automatically "fixes" failing clusters on the fly (controversial)\n\nNTFS may be more space-efficient...\n   - smaller cluster size than FAT32 above 8G\n   - may include data of small files within the directory level\n   - NTFS's bitmap structure is smaller than FAT32's dual FAT\n   - sparse files and compression can reduce data space usage\n...or less so...\n   - NTFS has large MFT structure\n   - larger per-file directory metadata space\n\nI would use NTFS where:\n\nUsers have professional-grade IT admin, including backup \nUsers need to hide data more than they need to salvage it \nApplications require files over 4G in size \nHard drive exceeds the 137G barrier \nBut while NTFS has no maintenance OS from which...\n\nData can easily be recovered \nFile system structure can be manually checked and repaired \nMalware can be scanned for and cleaned
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I believe NTSC is a standard video format for the United States, and has nothing to do with computer harddrives.\n\nFor a listing of current file systems and information on each, see my sources page below.\n\n'NTFS' is fully compatible with the older FAT32 file system. Windows XP supports both. Windows 2000/NT does as well.\n\nYou may have a problem using older versions of Windows (98, 95, 3.x) reading NTFS.\n\nThe latest versions of Linux are compatible with NTFS under certain conditions. Macintosh OS X 10.3 and later have read-only support for NTFS.
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The NTFS file system is the recommended file system for use with Windows 2000. NTFS has all of the basic capabilities of FAT, and it provides the following advantages over the FAT and FAT 32 file systems:\n\n1) Better file security and auditing. 2) Better disk compression. 3) Support for large hard disks, up to 2 terabytes (TB). {The maximum drive size for NTFS is much greater than that for FAT, and as drive size increases, performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.}  4) As well as various features for POSIX subsystem.\n\nFAT and FAT32\nFAT32 is an enhanced version of the FAT file system that can be used on drives from 512 megabytes (MB) to 2 TB in size. FAT and FAT32 offer compatibility with operating systems other than Windows 2000. If you're setting up a dual-boot configuration, you should probably use FAT or FAT32.\n\nIf you're dual booting Windows 2000 and another operating system, choose a file system based on the other operating system, using the following criteria:\n\nFormat the partition as FAT if the installation partition is smaller than 2 gigabytes (GB), or if you're dual booting Windows 2000 with MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT. \n\nUse FAT32 for use on partitions that are 2 GB or larger. If you choose to format using FAT during Windows 2000 Setup and your partition is greater than 2 GB, Setup automatically formats it as FAT32. \n\nIt's recommended that you use NTFS rather than FAT32 for partitions larger than 32 GB.\n\n\nSame thing goes for windows server 2003 also.\n\nhowever,there are more things.......\n\nNTFS supports filenames up to 256 characters in length (including spaces) with multiple extensions; FAT supports 8-character filenames with 3-character extensions, except when using VFAT.\n\nNTFS provides robust system security whether on a workstation or server; FAT does not.\n\nNTFS preserves mixed case filenames (although it does not distinguish between upper and lowercase when searching for files or folders); FAT does not.\n\nNTFS keeps a log of activities, in order to be able to restore the disk after a power failure or other interruptions.\n\nNTFS supports RAID configurations, whereas DOS is not equipped to read stripe sets, volume sets, and mirror sets.  Any such NTFS partitions would be invisible to anyone trying to read them from DOS.\n\nNTFS supports files and partitions up to 16 exabytes in length (an exabyte is about 16 quintillion bytes).\n\nNTFS provides real-time file compression on a file-by-file basis.\n\nNTFS supports POSIX standard network naming conventions such as case sensitivity, last-access-time stamping, and hard links.   Caution: While NTFS supports POSIX naming, NT's utilities do not.  Do not manage POSIX files with Explorer.\n\nNT implements a B-tree directory structure rather than the linked list directory structure used by the FAT file system.  This speeds up file searches and reduces the possibility of a missing link resulting in data loss.
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You can't format FAT or FAT32 with Windows XP.  It will operate in FAT332 mode, but it does not format FAT32. You'll have to find someone with any version of Windows 98, who will let you borrow their computer for a couple of minutes.  By the way, if you're using it on an NTFS computer, why in the world would you want it formatted for FAT32??
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Do you mean format or Wipe??? W2K/XP will format the drive for you during setup - It will prompt you always go with NTFS as it is far more stable than FAT32!! To zero or wipe a drive. To get rid of a virus Etc. Killdisk works well - I run it twice if there is a virus. See sources.
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Plug the drive in, right click My computer and choose manage, detect the drive, and format it NTFS or FAT32
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Is it a new HD, or an old one from an other computer? how is it tied into your computer, USB, Fire wire, or Slave in the tower?? Is it FAT32, or NTSF format? Is a Windows OS installed on it, which one? Info need to help....
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agreed, you likely have formatted it using FAT file system.\n\nif you have xp you should 'convert' your hard drive to NTFS.
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Each computer drive -- whether a hard disk, floppy, CD, or even multiple partitions on a single hard drive -- has a drive letter.\n\nMSWindows assigns the letter C to the main hard drive. The next one in line, whatever it is, is called D, and so on. \n\nFAT32 is a MSWindows-based file-system, which is how the computer keeps track of what is stored on the hard drive. It seems like your hard drive is split into a least two partitions, C and D, with the D part of the drive storing (organizing) files using a FAT32 file system. \n\nThe FAT32 file system itself is not what's taking up the space -- it's all the files and data stored on that disk.