NTFS is a journeled file system that keeps track of changes in a rather complicated 
way.  This is supposed to make it more crash (corruption) resistant on bad shutdowns 
and power losses.  It does in some instances and doesn't in others.  (MS was working 
on improving the file system for Vista but wasn't able to get it done due to many 
issues)  It won't make the HDD easier to recover and in fact makes it harder.

Case in point, right now I am working on repairing my neighbors drive with file structure 
and Metadata corruption and errors.  It would start after a while but you couldn't 
do anything nor could I image the drive for back up.  (FAT doesn't have Metadata). 
 I suspect his kids held the power button in and shut down the computer the wrong 
way.  NTFS usually won't have to go through as many disk checks on bad shutdowns 
as FAT, but when NTFS gets corrupted, it's harder to work with than FAT32.  Just 
my experience since NT and NTFS was released years ago..  ;-)

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