What's the difference between format with NTFS and FAT32?

Question

What's the difference between format with NTFS and FAT32?

Answer 1

FAT32 is a successor to the earlier FAT16 file management scheme.

FAT = File Allocation Table. FAT16 has been around since MS-DOS of the 1980s.

NTFS = New Technology File System, introduced with Windows NT in the early 90s.

In general, I recommend formating with NTFS. It contains more redundancy than FAT32, is more robust, and allows more security of files and directories by user and group.

The only downside to NTFS is that MS-DOS can't read partitions that are formatted in NTFS (without special drivers).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

FAT32 is an older way to format a hard drive.  It uses a 32 digit long binary number to keep track of how many tracks and sectors there are on the hard drive.  This limits the largest hard drive you can use to between 28 and 34 GB (depending on the size of the sectors).  

As hard drives began to get larger then that, MS created NTFS.  It uses a 64 bit number, allowing it to track hard drives up to 4000 gb in size.  It also uses some additional security features that help to reduce the changes of your directories getting messed up and you lose your files.

The only problem with NTFS is that some old computers can not read it, nor can some versions of Linux, MACs, and other non-Windows PCs.  So if you are using any of those, you may want to avoid NTFS.

Otherwise, with anything over 20gb of size, always go with NTFS.  It is faster, safer, and allows you to use today's "giant size" hard drives.

Answer 4

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