I'm sure there is someone here more knowledgeable about this than I am,
but if I remember correctly from my MCSE courses, you really don't need
NTFS for a typical user. The new NTFS has a lot of security goodies
(very fine-grained permissions, etc.), but the average user will
probably never use them. And I think that if the user ever decides to
dual boot with Linux, he'll have a much easier time trying to write to a
FAT32 partition than an NTFS partition.

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 17:43, Nathan England wrote:
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> I was building a new machine for a custmer today and they 
> wanted XP installed. I formatted the drive ahead of time with 
> fat32, then XP only offered to format NTFS or leave the 
> partition alone.  So I want anyone's opinion on this.
> I heard that NTFS is newer than that used in NT and has 
> performance modifications. Does anyone know the benefits of 
> using NTFS with XP home on a typical users machine?  Or is 
> fat32 still better? Do the security advances outweigh being 
> able to boot off a floppy and recover data?
> 
> - -- 
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> Nathan England
> plug@the-arcanum.org
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> "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular"
> 			--Adlai Stevenson
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