Re: NTFS vs FAT32

From: André Gulliksen (andre.gulliksen_at_start.no)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:21:18 +0100

"MSN" <stm@xinhuanet.com> skrev i melding
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> My worry is: Between NTFS and FAT32 format in my Disk C and D.
> Meaning my XP is running in NTFS, but my data is saved in FAT32 Disk D.

There are basically three things you should consider here:

- Stability. As mentioned already, NTFS is safer than FAT32. NTFS is less
prone to corruption, and even if you still risk data corruption it is likely
to be less severe than on a FAT32 file system.

- Security and user rights. If there are multiple users on your system they
may or may not be able to access files on an NTFS file system (depending
on your security settings), and everybody will have full access to
everything on a FAT32 file system. Wether or not this is desirable is up to
you.

- Compatibility. If you install other operating systems on the computer
(such as Windows 98 or Linux) it will probably be easier to access FAT32
file systems than NTFS file systems from these operating systems.

> Then how if I have a data file which saved in both C and D disks. Is there
> any problem for editing and save afterward? Will the file (data) will be
> saved to different format to C and D in NTFS and FAT32 again?

The file itself will be the same. The only difference will be user rights.

> Further more if I save it in a floppy disk consider as C [container].
> In all cases, will there any problem later where I open this data
> file in my system? How if I take the floppy disk to someone who runs W98?

If you copy a file to a floppy it does not matter what file system it comes
from.

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