OS Fundamentals
NTFS4 New Technology File System
used with win NT 4 provides greater security than FAT, and
better disk compression. Support for large
hard disks, up to 2 terabytes and as drive size increases,
performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.
NTFS5 Updated NTFS for windows
2000,NTFS The NTFS file system is the recommended file system for
use with Windows 2000. NTFS has all of the basic capabilities of
FAT, and it provides the following advantages over the FAT and FAT
32 file systems:
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Better file security with encrypting file system (EFS)
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Better disk compression.
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Support for large hard disks, and as drive size increases,
performance with NTFS doesn't degrade as it does with FAT.
HPFS High Performance File System is the file system used
with OS/2. Windows NT 3.51 supported partitions formatted with HPFS
, but it did not support formatting new drives as HPFS. In Windows
NT 4.0, the support for HPFS was eliminated.
File Systems that windows supports
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Win 95 |
98/ME |
NT 3.51/4 |
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Fat
|
yes
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yes
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yes
|
yes
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Fat 32
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95/ORS2 |
yes
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no
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yes
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NTFS4
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no
|
no
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NT 4
|
yes
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NTFS5
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no
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no
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NT 4 with service pack 4
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yes
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HPFS
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no
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no
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NT 3.51
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no
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