disc partitionlike fat,ntfs,what is the advantage of this two
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New Technology File System\n\nNTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Windows versions 95, 98, 98SE and ME cannot natively read NTFS filesystems, although third-party utilities do exist for this purpose.\n\nNTFS replaced Microsoft's previous FAT file system, used in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows. NTFS has several improvements over FAT such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability and disk space utilization plus additional extensions such as security access control lists and file system journaling. Its main drawback is its very limited support by non-Microsoft OSes, since the exact specification is a trade secret of Microsoft.
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no ntfs does not work with linux, NTFS is a file system supported  by windows and linux has its own file system.
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Of course, two hard disks is great for dual boot. One hard disk can do too but slower and you must using fdisk command in dos
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Partition Magic is notorious for destroying hard drives. I would NOT use it under any circumstances.\n\nIf you can't find any files to remove, you may have to resort to copying your stuff off and re-doing the whole thing.\n\nIt's your choice... you can use Partition Magic and risk losing everything, (I've NEVER actually even seen it work) or you can take the long road, not lose a thing, and get it exactly how you want it.
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you would need to use partition magic as trying to do it yourself with a third party software you would end up deleting everything you on your Hard drive and loose all your data.\nor another suggestion would be buy a external USB hard drive and keep all your music and othe personal stuff on it.\nThis was you would increase your storage space and won't need to partition your exisiting drive and risk loosing your data.
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Partition - This is how you organise your harddisk space. Say you have a 100GB harddisk. You can use all of it as C: drive or you can "partition" 50GB for C: drive and 50GB for D: drive. Some people put different Operating Systems in different partitions, while others put Programs in one partition and Data in another partition. There are innovative ways to partition your harddisk to get the optimal performance for your particular needs.\n\nFAT - File Allocation Table. This is the place where the locations of your files are registered so that it can be saved, retrieved, deleted, moved, etc.\n\nFormat - This is a process of organising your harddisk drive's space so that the operating system and applications can use it.\n\nIDE - This is harddisk hardware interface to the PC system's board. It is normally connected via a ribbon cable.
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If you're using an older OS like Win98, it can't see ntfs partitions.  It sounds like the 120GB drive is formatted in ntfs and the recovery partition is formatted in FAT32 (which all Windows OS recognizes).\n\nI suggest reformatting the drive in FAT32 or upgrade to WinXP.
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yah it's good. having paging file on other drives except windows installed is considered good, and also increase speed.
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You can use MacDirve(it costs around $50), to create format and read HFS(+) partitions, there will be some problems with Windows XP, so read this "tutorial":\nhttp://www.bioneural.net/2004/07/30/backing-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world/\n\nAnd here is MacDrive site:\nhttp://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/
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I use for that Acronis Disc Director Suite. It is not expensive and it can resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data. Besides that Disk Director has a number of useful features that will help you to reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage and much more. You can learn more about Disk Director here: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/
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Unfortunatly Windows xp cant see any thing more then around 137 to 143 gigs per drive It has something to do with the way windows formats the drives. I know this for experiance I would love it if there was a way i could do that with my 250 gig drive but NTFS formating and Fat32 prevent it from happening.
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Dunno if u can get 2 run fdisk\ndelete partitions\nre-create partitions \nmake c: active\nformat c: & d:\ninstall win xp on c:\n\nbest of luck !
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I agree with Freman on this but there are partition managers that let you switch back and forth relatively quickly.  Just google 'partition manager' or something and you'll get a list of them.
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i couldnt find a list so i leave you some links\n\n1st a collection of computer ads that might bring some light to this matter\n\nthere are some prices on the next link\n\non the last link you'll find comparison of Hard drive space
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Unless you are very good with Linux you should keep a NTFS partition with XP installed. You can always resize your partition later if you decide you don't need XP. Since you have a COA for XP and it would not hurt to have it on your drive for while.\nI would recommend...\n\nPartition 1 Linux 40Gb\nPartition 2 XP    20Gb\nPartition 3 Data  60Gb\n\nI have and like Digital Dolly 1.0. It is a freeware drive utility.
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Besides all the differences between NTFS and FAT32 file systems also note that there is no such a rigid restriction on the size of the file in NTFS file system. As for FAT32 file system the maximum size of the file in it is only 4 gigs.
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According to the website Ubuntu has issues with resizing NTFS file system which is the file system of XP. There is a secondary procedure listed, have you tried that? And if you have already tried that and have no other options you can use partition magic. I used partition magic many times for my dual boot systems and it works great. It does have a $70 price tag though.