What is the advantages and disadvantages of FAT32 and NTFS?

Question

give me a brief discription for these file system

Answer 1

got to net and search there

Answer 2

FAT32 has some other advantages over the FAT 16 file system in regards to improved reliability. For example, under the FAT 16 file system, the root directory is located only at the beginning of the hard disk. If anything were to happen to this section of the hard disk, such as the development of bad sectors, the whole drive will become unusable as the file index will become damaged. Therefore, one will have to seek out special disk recovery tools to try to recover the data, which more than likely will be unsuccessful. By using the FAT 32 file system, the root directory can be located anywhere on the hard disk. Therefore, if anything happens to the section of the hard disk storing the root directory, the FAT 32 file system’s built in utilities will be able to move the root directory to a safe location on the hard disk and repair the defective area. In addition, the FAT 32 file system can use both the default and the backup copy of the File Allocation Table. This means that if something were to happen to the default FAT, your system will continue to run by using the backup copy until the default can be repaired.

NTFS - New Technology File System

The NTFS file system was introduced with the first version of Windows NT (New Technology) and is a completely different file system from FAT 16 and Fat 32. Microsoft actually designed it to be more stable, reliable and offer end users greatly increased security.

Access rights can be assigned to files and directories, allowing users full access, partial access or no access at all to that data stored on your hard disk.

File and directory compression can be performed directly without the need for third party utilities as this feature is now built into the file system.

Disk quotas can be assigned, limiting the amount of disk space that users can access on a particular partition on the hard drive.

Built in Encryption where The NTFS 5.0 file system can automatically encrypt and decrypt file data as it is read and written to the hard disk.

Support for large hard disks, with a theoretical limit up to 2 TeraBytes (TB).

Support for long file names to 255 characters as well as "8 by 3" names.

File names are in Unicode, allowing people in countries not using the Latin alphabet (e.g., Greece, Japan, India, Russia, and Israel) to write file names in their native language.

Using The FAT And/Or The NTFS File System

If you plan on running more than one operating system on your computer, often referred to Dual Booting, you will definitely need to format some of your volumes with the FAT file system. Any programs or data that need to be accessed by more than one operating system should be stored on the FAT volume(s). But do keep in mind that there is no security for data stored on a FAT16 or FAT32 volume. Therefore, any user with access to the computer, either directly or across a network can read, change, or even delete files that are stored on a FAT16 or FAT32 partition. Therefore, you definitely do want to store any sensitive files on drives or partitions formatted with NTFS file systems.

Answer 3

FAT32 systems on XP will conduct a file check if windows was not shut down properly. This will more or less guarantee that no file system problems arise. NTFS however does not perform such check.

Answer 4

yes you can... also you can use the convert command . if you have alreadu installed NT versions or xp in your machine .. but after converting you cannot install windows 98 .. millenium etc like desktop versions of windows on your NTFS partition.. So make you decision before you do that. or else partition your hard drive to contain both NTFS and FAT32 Only NTFS supports disk compresion, detailed security settings and alike facilities na is much more faster when compared to FAT32

Answer 5

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=advantages+disadvantages+fat32+ntfs

Answer 6

for FAT32 ---------
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32
http://www.computerhope.com/fat32.htm
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/FAT32.html

for NTFS ---------------
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
http://www.ntfs.com
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NTFS.html

Answer 7

http://www.theeldergeek.com/ntfs_or_fat32_file_system.htm