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by gchen

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Hi there! Do you have any suggestion for running NTFS or System32? I?m currently running under XP for personal use and I have no network. What is the dilemma under those programs?
What system runs better?
Thank you,

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by nschulz

System32 provides slightly better performance and NTFS provides slightly more reliability. NTFS does provide greater security.

In most cases you would never notice the difference.

Thanks Norm

by gchen

Thanks for your answer. It has help me to decide to keep it as NTFS format.

by thechas

If you need to acces the drive from DOS, or Windows 9X, then stick with FAT32.

Otherwise;

If your drive is under 10GB, IMHO, the option is up to you.

If your drive is over 32GB, then I clearly recommend NTSF.
In addition to the extra security, and reliability of NTSF, you also get a smaller cluster size, and thus, less wasted drive space.

Chas

by gchen

Thanks for your answer. It has help me to decide to keep it as NTFS format.

by gchen

Thank to you all for yours answer. I did convert all my files to NTFS since I upgraded my hard drive to 40GB on my laptop after analyzed your suggestions.

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