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by dub

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I'm trying to set up IIS on XP and noticed that it said something about hard drive needing to be formatted as NTFS. Is this absolutely necessary? I know that the transition is easy but I worry about losing info when changing my file system. (yes Iknow, be sure to back up. But, I still don't trust backups)

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by ann777

MS IIS will not operate under FAT; it was designed that way for security.

Yes, it is necessary because FAT files are totally insecure and you'll want to configure IIS to operate only under specific paths and directories.

by cg it

W2K convert command is convert c:/FS:NTFS and no data is lost during the convert process. [once converted you can't go back, except by using a 3rd party utility and then data loss is very likely] If you use the command prompt convert command, your computer will need to reboot to finish the conversion process. [systematic backing up data is just a given with computers].

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