NTFS and FAT

The Den SG

Whats the difference? Laughing

The Den SG

When i install OS (Win XP) there's a prompt for NTFS or FAT, which one do i choose?

What does the two stand for? What difference will it make? Any kind people help can help? Very Happy

BrUtUs SG

cant remember wat it stands for.... but if u using winxp, use ntfs...

Poopie-Head SG

Win9x and ME systems can only access FAT file systems.

If you dont need ur harddisk to be read by those older OS, then try to use NTFS. It can give u better usage of disk space, and also better security.

For example, if u got multi-boot Win98 and WinXP, and u got 2 partitions (1 FAT and 1 NTFS), when u load up Win98 u cant read the NTFS partition. But u can access both partitions when u load up WinXP.

Even if u only using one OS, U might wanna consider partitioning into 2, one for OS and one for data storage. Just in case anything happen to ur OS and u need to reformat then u only destroy the OS partition and everything in ur Data partition is safe. Of coz, if u got 2 HDD then better lah. Wink

Poopie-Head SG

FAT = File Allocation Table
NTFS = NT File System

i think... (old brain stalling) Laughing

The Den SG

Thanks you people for enlightenment... hope to learn more thru this forum Smile

Btw any useful website for learning computer jargons? Ir else I will just posting question after question here for u all to answer. Laughing

Again Thanks

Poopie-Head SG

go hardwarezone and ask the experts there. Wink

kaobeikaobu SG

usually you only use FAT or FAT32 when you want dual boot two or more OS.

NTFS is Microsoft propietary file system which includes more features e.g. security like encryption option, folder security etc, and more disk feature options e.g. compression, indexing etc.

choose NTFS in your case.