what's the different between NTFS and FAT32  file system ?
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FAT stands for File Allocation Table, and it dates way back to DOS days, when the operating system fit on a single 360k floppy. Beginning with Windows 95 SR-2, FAT was upgraded from 16 bit to 32 bit, and so when we refer to FAT, we are actually talking (these days) about FAT32, not FAT16. FAT32 overcame some of the inherent limitations of FAT16 disk and volume sizes, as well as directory entry restrictions, long filename restrictions, and large cluster sizes, which wasted large amounts of disk space when storing small files. FAT32 volumes, in theory, can range in size from less than 1 MB up to 2 TB (TeraBytes). However, when used with Windows XP/2000, the maximum size of a volume is 32 GB. Also, the maximum individual file size is 4 GB. FAT32 is the native file system of Windows 98 and Windows ME, although it is supported by Windows XP/2000.
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Yes, you can read info on a NTFS formatted external HD using Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4.  You cannot copy or save any new data to the drive from the Mac. You will also note that Mac OS X is much more sensative to errors on the drive so sometimes the drive will mount and work fine in Windows but not on the Mac. If you repair the drive with a good disk utility or reformat the drive, it will loose all its errors and work fine on the Mac.\n\nWhy do you want to use NTFS? Can't you just use an external FAT32 formatted HD? Then you can read or write data with any version of Mac OS X. Happy days!
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install windows on NTFS File system. then only u can enable \nlocal security on folders.\n\nYou can't enable local security on FAT File system. \n\nIf you change folder properties, it will enable security for network.\nAny user on ur computer can access that folder.
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It means that the hard drive already has a file format on it such as ext3, FAT32, or NTFS.\n\nA lot of times when you buy a hard drive, you must use a utility to format it OR you have to use your operating system install disk. If you buy a pre-formatted hard drive, the company you got it from has already done it.\n\nThe HD must have a "file system" in order for it to operate at all. Windows 2000 and XP use NTFS, some earlier Windows used FAT32, and some LINUX OS's use ext3. These are all unique in their own way. Some, however, cannot be "read" by some operating systems. Just make sure that your disk is pre-formatted with something that you can use. \n\nHope that helps,\nJon
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Yes you can ... all you need to do is assign that 15 Gb to extended partition and then  create 1 or multiple logical drives in it and there you can use it.\n For Win 200/Xp/2003 Type Compmgmt.msc in Start/Run and follow the above mentioned procedure . refer windows Help for more info\n Also you can convert From FAT to NTFS/FAT32 but vice-versa is not possible. also Converting from FAT32 to NTFS is not possible and also vice versa.
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fat 32 (i.e. File Allocation Table) is a file system for writing on computer hard disks. In this system, the hard disk space is divided into units of 32bits. When data is to be written to the disk, each of the 32 bits of space allocated on the hard disk is written into till full. When a new input is to be made on the hard disk, another 32bit space or block is selected and written into.This however wastes much of the disk space available.\n    However, in recent times, another file system has arisen. This is the NTFS. In this system, data is written on tne disk in close succession or no particular order except that for each new data to be written, a new space is chosen right after the last used space.This therefore maintains or makes available a great deal of space available for use and is more adviseable.\n    Hope I've been of much help. Bye!
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steller phonics FAT and NTFS
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The File Allocation Table (FAT) file system is a simple file system originally designed for small disks and simple folder structures. The FAT file system is named for its method of organization, the file allocation table, which resides at the beginning of the volume. To protect the volume, two copies of the table are kept, in case one becomes damaged. In addition, the file allocation tables and the root folder must be stored in a fixed location so that the files needed to start the system can be correctly located. \n\nA volume formatted with the FAT file system is allocated in clusters. The default cluster size is determined by the size of the volume. For the FAT file system, the cluster number must fit in 16 bits and must be a power of two. \n\nA version of the file allocation table (FAT) available in Windows 95 OSR 2 and Windows 98. FAT32 increases the number of bits used to address clusters and also reduces the size of each cluster. The result is that it can support larger disks (up to 2 terabytes) and better storage efficiency (less slack space). \n\n\nNTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.\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. The exact specification is a trade secret of Microsoft.
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there is no limitation........ and theoratically its about 160GB......... but at now many tools are available which makes your harddrive NTFS even if you have more than this bytes. but exactly research telling about more tahn 32TB
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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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Wasted space, optimization, fragmented, defragmentation and slack. Terms that not too long ago had little or no meaningful relationship to computers, let alone hard drives, or any type of drive for that matter. File fragmentation, one of the vagaries of the FAT file system, has garnered considerably more attention in recent years with the advent of hard drive sizes above 1 GB in size. When hard drives were in the range of 40MB to 1GB, no one had a clue that their drives had wasted space. As a matter of fact, most were enthralled at the release of a 1GB hard drive. It wasn't until the mid-1990s, when hard drives began climbing above 2GB, did we realize that there was something wrong, yet we had no idea just what it was. Hard drives were not being divided into multiple partitions at that time, and after a period of continued use, users began noticing that large amounts disk space seemed to literally disappear. While on smaller drives, those below 1GB, this was barely noticeable, but on larger drives approaching 2GB, this amounted to hundreds of megabytes. As file fragmentation was more fully understood, and defragmentation tools began to develop, users finally understood the "why" behind the disappearing disk space. Shortly after the release of the FAT32 file system, the issue of fragmentation became less critical. Now, however, as hard drive sizes climb above the 80GB range, we begin revisiting the old terms such as wasted space, optimization, fragmented, defragmentation, and add a new one, "slack". As long as hard drives remained below the 30GB range, FAT 32 tended to keep everything cleaned up, but as we passed the 40 GB mark, even FAT 32 has its problems controlling slack.\n\nObviously this missing drive space isn't really gone, unless we're talking about damaged or lost clusters, at which point this missing drive space is actually unusable portions of the hard drive that need to be recovered with the appropriate disk utility. However, we're not discussing that aspect of missing drive space, we're discussing slack. This slack space is simply space wasted as a result of the cluster system that FAT file system uses. A cluster is the minimum amount of space that can be assigned to a file, and no file can use merely a part or piece of a cluster and a separate file use the remainder under the FAT file system. Essentially, when a file is assigned to a cluster, even if it were merely a single byte of data, the space assigned would rounded to an integer multiple equal to the cluster size itself. If you add to that file, gradually the entire cluster would be used until you reach the maximum size of that cluster. As soon as the file becomes larger than the capacity of that single cluster, even by a single byte, the additional byte is then allocated to another cluster, and the file's space usage will double, even though the file only increased in size by one byte.
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Questions a manger might ask:\n1. What operating system will you suggest for a new user?\n2. How do you partition a hard drive?\n3. How to assemble PC?\n \nFAT32\nShort for File Allocation Table, FAT is a method used by Microsoft operating systems to keep track of the contents of a disk; the table is a chart of numbers that correspond to cluster addresses on the hard drive. \nFAT12: The oldest type of File Allocation Table that uses 12-bit binary system. A hard disk drive formatted using FAT12 can use a maximum of approximately 16,736,256 volume size and today is no longer used. If your computer is running Windows 95 or above and your FAT within FDISK is being displayed as FAT12 it is likely that your hard disk drive is corrupted, bad or has a computer virus.\n\nFAT16: FAT utilizing a 16-bit binary system. Commonly found with Windows 3.x through Windows 95. FAT16, while becoming obsolete by FAT32, is still commonly found.\n\nFAT32: Enhanced File Allocation Table utilizing a 28-bit binary system, first used in Windows 95 OSR2 and more so in Windows 98, that saves disk space by using 4k Cluster. See FAT32 Page for extended information about FAT32.\n\nNTFS\nShort for New Technology File System, NTFS is a file organizational system that stores and accesses information located on Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP operating system. NTFS offers better methods of data protection and file recovery than previous versions of FAT. \n\nAdditional information on NTFS can be found on document CH000165. \n\nAdditional information about determining the type of file system on a hard disk drive can be found on document CH000713. \n\nInstall Local  Printer:\n\nClick:\n \nStart\nPrinters and Faxes\nAdd Printer\nSelect local printer\n(Windows runs the autodetection)\nIf the windows did not find the particular driver\nClick use the following port (select what type USB, Serial Port etc.. )\nfinally select what brand (epson, agfa etc...
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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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The disk space it saves is negligable.\n\nHowever, it makes your files more secure than the old fat system.
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about partion it depends on which opearating system installed on your computer. it can be NTFS, FAT, FAT32 for windows and there are many of diff. OS so it's not always NTFS. the partition will not be deleted when your format but ofcouse the data will be.
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from the command prompt\n\nconvert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs\n\ne.g.:  convert c: /fs:ntfs