My thoughts as well. But what about performance? Does NTFS
under XP provide better performance?
Am Dienstag 23 Juli 2002 06:51 nachmittags/abends schrieb
Michelle Lowman:
> 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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