Installing XP -> using fat-32 (not NFTS)

[jcarle]

I have trouble understanding how people can refuse to accept that there are better technologies out there. And by the way, for those who believe that NTFS is crap because it's a Microsoft creation, so was FAT.

FAT32 is the same technology as FAT16. In turn, FAT16 is the same technology as FAT12. The only thing that's changed is that they've built on top of FAT12 and extended to support more features, bigger files and larger partitions. So in reality FAT32 is simply technology from 1977 that's been adjusted to fit more recent demands (as of 1996).

FAT32 simply cannot outdo NTFS. As a matter of fact, some of the easy to run into situations of modern computing today simply cannot be achieved with FAT32. Files over 4GB for example or a RAID array of more then 8TB (easily achieveable with modern disks, it would only take 10 x Hitachi 7K1000 in RAID 5).

Performance, reliability, stability and data recovery are all on NTFS's side as well. Simply dismissing those facts because you need special software to be able to do data recovery on NTFS partitions is ignoring the facts and simply pointing a finger at an unrelated issue.

NTFS is the only choice for modern day computing.

[tomi_ak47]

98 Guy , i wonder what's your opinion with PATA & SATA ?