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Thought someone here could use this.
Keep in mind, that if you use NTFS, your recovery options will be SEVERELY limited in what you can do. You won't be able to use DOS, for one thing, to edit files, and make your system bootable again. What people fail to realize, though, is that NTFS was designed to be a government/industry-level secure filesystem. They probably intentionally designed it so you cannot access the filesystem in DOS.
It's kind of a balance. If you can forsee that something may go wrong with your system, and you might need access to your data outside of the OS, then you need to run FAT32. If you're more concerned about permissions and fault-tolerance than you are fixing things using DOS, then by all means run NTFS.
Thought someone here could use this.
Keep in mind, that if you use NTFS, your recovery options will be SEVERELY limited in what you can do. You won't be able to use DOS, for one thing, to edit files, and make your system bootable again. What people fail to realize, though, is that NTFS was designed to be a government/industry-level secure filesystem. They probably intentionally designed it so you cannot access the filesystem in DOS.
It's kind of a balance. If you can forsee that something may go wrong with your system, and you might need access to your data outside of the OS, then you need to run FAT32. If you're more concerned about permissions and fault-tolerance than you are fixing things using DOS, then by all means run NTFS.
Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
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