wat is the differenes between FAT and NTFS, differene between win 2000 and XP..wat are all file system present
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FAT and NTFS are different disk formats/file systems. NTFS is more stable and more secure than FAT and allows the storage of larger files than can be stored on FAT. NTFS was meant to be used for Win 2000 up. NTFS formatted media cannot work on a FAT formatted system. However, FAT formatted media can work on both FAT and NTFS. That's why usb drives are FAT formatted.\n\nWin XP is the version of windows after Win 2000. Don't remember where Win Me comes in, but stay away from it. One of the biggest differences between Win 2000 and Win XP is the massive driver support available in Win XP. You can connect almost any device without needing to install the driver.
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It depends on what you need.\n\nNTFS offers better security, file compression, quotas, and encryption.\n\nIf you're multi-booting with multiple OS'es, then you will have to format some volumes as FAT, since NTFS is typically not compatible with other operating systems.\n\nHere's some articles comparing and contrasting the two.\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_october01.mspx\nhttp://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/implFAT-c.html\nhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/2744/2744.html
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Forget about books...learn about partition types from online search (know about FAT/FAT32/NTFS):\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/win9x/fat32ovr_0j03.asp\nhttp://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwtab.htm\n\nthen install Windows several times w/ & w/o removing previous Windows...from all the messages you see, you will learn\n\nLearning from books is never as good as hands on...\n\nPS: Windows Server Installation is as normal as any other Windows OS installation...the only difference is the License setting at the start, and this could be altered from under Windows...\n\nWhat you want is the installation of different Services for the Server, its management and deploying...\n\nFor this, get some PDFs/books and apply as you go on...just reading is useless...
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98 uses the the FAT32 file system, while 2000 and NT use NTFS. \n\nSecurity is present in 98, but it actually works in 2000 and NT. You can't just click on cancel to log on.\n\n2000 and NT run well on servers, but for the most part they are the same.\n\n2000/NT handle large hard drives (over 40GB) better than 98. 98 stops recognizing size after after 60GB I think.\n\n2000/NT make better use of RAM.\n\n2000/NT has better recognition of USB devices. This can be flaky in 98.
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If you upgraded from Windows 95, 98, or Millenium, you need to go to your sound card mfg. website to download the correct driver for W2K. What happens is, you actually change your file system from FAT(16), or FAT32, to NTFS. \nNTFS is a totally different file system, and is not compatible with the FAT system. You may find further problems; errors, or not being able to start certain programs, etc. Just do the same, go to the website of the manufacturer of the hard/software, and they will have a driver for this other file system. FYI, W2K and all the XP's,Vista, the newer OS's are all NTFS formatted, so you might as well get used to doing this - or, buy ALL new s/w and h/w that will run on YOUR new machine. Have fun...LB
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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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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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Your best bet is a complete reformat and reinstall.  Windows XP uses a different file system (NTFS) than Win98 (FAT32).  While XP can run on a FAT32 drive, it will be much happier and more stable with it's native filesystem.\n\nBack up all your important files to another drive or to external media (DVD-R's, flash drives, etc) and boot with the WinXP CD.  Select a new installation and delete all existing partitions.  Windows will then format the drive and install a fresh copy.
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Simply install XP on your zip drive when it ask how to format? ;-) simply type FAT 32 it will work
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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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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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File Allocation Table (FAT) is a patented file system developed by Microsoft for MS-DOS and is the primary file system for consumer versions of Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows Me.\n\nFAT12\n------\nThis initial version of FAT is now referred to as FAT12. As a filesystem for floppy disks, it had a number of limitations: no support for hierarchical directories, cluster addresses were "only" 12-bits long (which made the code manipulating the FAT a bit tricky) and the disk size was stored as a 16-bit count of sectors, which limited the size to 32MB.\n\nInitial FAT16\n------------\nIn 1984 IBM released the PC AT, which featured a 20 MB hard disk. Microsoft introduced MS-DOS 3.0 in parallel. Cluster addresses were increased to 16-bit, allowing for a greater number of clusters (up to 65,517) and consequently much greater filesystem sizes. However, the maximum possible number of sectors and the maximum (partition, rather than disk) size of 32 MB did not change. Therefore, although technically already "FAT16", this format was not yet what today is commonly understood under this name. A 20 MB hard disk formatted under MS-DOS 3.0, was not accessible by the older MS-DOS 2.0. Of course, MS-DOS 3.0 could still access MS-DOS 2.0 style 8 KB cluster partitions.\nFinally in November 1987, in Compaq DOS 3.31, came what is today called the FAT16 format, with the expansion of the 16-bit disk sector index to 32 bits. The result was initially called the DOS 3.31 Large File System. Although the on-disk changes were apparently minor, the entire DOS disk code had to be converted to use 32-bit sector numbers, a task complicated by the fact that it was written in 16-bit assembly language.\n\nFAT32\n-------\nIn order to overcome the volume size limit of FAT16, while still allowing DOS real-mode code to handle the format without unnecessarily reducing the available conventional memory, Microsoft decided to implement a newer generation of FAT, known as FAT32, with cluster counts held in a 32-bit field, of which 28 bits are currently used.\n\nIn theory, this should support a total of approximately 268,435,438 (< 228) clusters, allowing for drive sizes in the range of 2 terabytes. However, due to limitations in Microsoft's scandisk utility, the FAT is not allowed to grow beyond 4,177,920 (< 222) clusters, placing the volume limit at 124.55 gigabytes, unless "scandisk" is not needed [3].\n\nFAT32 was introduced with Windows 95 OSR2, although reformatting was needed to use it, and DriveSpace 3 (the version that came with Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98) never supported it. Windows 98 introduced a utility to convert existing hard disks from FAT16 to FAT32 without loss of data. In the NT line, support for FAT32 arrived in Windows 2000.\n\nNTFS \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 operating systems, since the exact specification is a trade secret of Microsoft.
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YOU CANNOT CONVERT "NTFS" PARTITION TO "FAT32" using Convert command.\n\n You can convert FAT partition To Either NTFS or FAT32 But not Vice-Versa. and also conversion from Fat32 to NTFS or Vice-versa is  impossible. \n\nThe best solution to your problem is to make an image of your current partition (which is NTFS and u wat to convert to FAT32) with HDD image (backup) software like Norton Ghost or Nero BackItUp (u can use other's even) .Once you have taken the image (backup) of your partition on DVDs/CDs; Format that partition by making it as FAT32 File System. Now restore the image that you had taken on the formatted partition and All software that you required will be restored in the same condition as you had backed it up. You don't need to install any OS or application.. It will look like the same OS and Application suite , as u had before taking image.
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one (major) difference between mac and windows desktops is the file system running underneath the operating systems.\n\nwindows uses the NTFS (or *occasionally* fat32) filesystem:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs\n\nand mac computers use the HFS filesystem:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_File_System\n\nread the above and get a vague understanding about the difference then repeat it - it's a bit more in-depth than 'apple has an apple and windows has a start button' - you'll sound like a professional lmao
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Introduction\nIt's essential that an operating system be able to maintain your disks at peak levels of reliability and performance. The Windows® 2000 operating system does this through a built-in system tool called Disk Defragmenter. Disk Defragmenter was developed through a collaborative effort between Microsoft Corporation and Executive Software International. Read on to learn more about disk fragmentation and defragmentation, and how Disk Defragmenter supports the maintenance of disk efficiency.\n\nTop of page\nTypes of Fragmentation\nFragmentation is caused by creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and downloading files from the Internet. Computers do not necessarily save an entire file or folder in a single space on a disk; they're saved in the first available space. After a large portion of a disk has been used, most of the subsequent files and folders are saved in pieces across the volume. (In this discussion the terms disk and volume are used interchangeably.) When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind are filled in randomly as you store new ones. This is how fragmentation occurs. The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer's file input and output performance will be. There are two main types of disk fragmentation: file fragmentation and free space fragmentation.\n\nFile Fragmentation\nA file with all its parts stored in one location on a disk is described as "contiguous." If a file is not contiguous, it's fragmented; broken into pieces that are scattered throughout the disk. All Windows NT® and Windows 2000 file types—File Allocation Table (FAT) and NTFS file system (NTFS)—are susceptible to fragmentation.\n\nFile fragmentation has a negative effect on disk performance because the disk head requires more time to move around to different points on the disk to read scattered file parts. This is a primary reason for the gradual degradation of system performance—and the specific cause of longer reads and extended reboots.\n\nFree Space Fragmentation\nA partially full disk contains unused space, known as free space. Ideally, this space would be available in a few contiguous portions of the disk. And while it's good to have free space, it's not good if it's fragmented. Free space fragmentation refers to file space that's broken into small pieces, rather than joined together. This type of fragmentation results in slowed performance because of the time it takes for the disk head to move to different points on the disk to find free space and then write the file. Fragmented free space also increases the possibility of file fragmentation; when a file is larger than the space it's being written to, the file fragments.\n\nTop of page\nAnalyzing Defragmentation\nDefragmentation is the process of rewriting non-contiguous parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a disk for the purpose of increasing data access and retrieval speeds. Because FAT and NTFS disks can deteriorate and become badly fragmented over time, defragmentation is vital for optimal system performance.\n\nFragmentation Analysis Study\nHow fragmented can a system get? In June 1999 the American Business Research Corporation of Irvine, California performed a fragmentation analysis and found that, out of 100 corporate offices that were not using a defragmenter, 50 percent of the respondents had server files with 2,000 to 10,000 fragments—and another 33 percent had files that were fragmented into 10,333 to 95,000 pieces. In all cases the results were the same: Servers and workstations experienced a significant degradation in performance.\n\nGood Housekeeping\nEven a new computer system will experience disk fragmentation because loading the operating system results in both file and free space fragmentation. You can test this by loading the operating system onto a new machine, and then run the analysis function of Disk Defragmenter (explained below).\n\nFor t
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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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Try using the FORMAT command. The Syntax may vary depending on your version of Windows.\n\nIt should be: FORMAT X: /FS:FAT\n\nWhere X: is the drive letter assigned to your card.