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re: Formatting to NTFS is preferable.
Saturday, May 21, 2005 at 5:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Simon Cross
(8 messages posted)
In my experience, Windows XP Home will not format drives in NTFS at all.
Use FAT32. If you have a big HDD, separate it into partitions. It saved a lot of
heartache.
On Monday, April 11, 2005 at 12:23 am, Mac wrote:
>XP Operating System
>"NTFS is necessary for XP Professional"
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>No, it is not I have XP Professional and I use/recommend FAT32.
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>"There is no reason for your system drive to be over 20 GB, and thus no reason to
>use NTFS on it."
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>Unless you bought XP Professional for the security which it affords the user.
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>http://netsecurity.about.com/od/securingwindowsxp/qt/aa071804.htm
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>Windows XP will not format drives, or partitions, over 32Gb to anything other than
>the NTFS file system.
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Mac
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>WINDOWS SUPPORT
>HREF="http://www.crucial.com">RAM
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