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Old October 3rd, 2003, 06:27 PM     #3 (permalink)
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ntfs will give you several benefits including file and folder permissions, indexing, journalling (helps with fault tolerance), quotas and encryption. It also scales better than fat32 in my experience.

As mentioned you can select to use either fat32 or ntfs during the installation of XP.

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