ITS File Systems

[Madgee]

What are the differences between FAT & NTFS

[Rudegar]

http://www.google.dk/search?hl=da&q=fat+and+ntsf&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8gning&meta=lr%3Dlang_da%7Clang_en

[stlouis1]

aside from the obvious cluster size difference and space allocation

NTFS can hold more information about the file, such as last accessed, and other information, publishers, artists, stuff that used to be just ID3 tags, it will treat as part as the file system....which also causes problems sometimes deleting files, but thats rare.

now with ntfs6, theres a new shadow copy system. which vista uses for its system restore, it will use up to about 3gb to store incremental and differential system data for its system restore points. i believe the estimate is that it can hold up to 60 restore points. the nice thing about this improved system restore, is that for once it will restore programs like ppl thought it would in XP. but in XP it only restored settings, not program files, not in vista is does both

thats also why when you dual boot vista and XP, XP will wipe vistas restore points. XP only recognizes NTFS5, not NTFS6, so the extra file headers are wiped when XP is loaded, but thats an XP problem, hopefully SP3 will fix that