What s the system file format?

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FAT (File Allocation Table) is the meaning of "File Allocation Table". For us, it's about the management of hard drive partitions. FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS are the three most common file systems.

FAT16: We used to use the FAT16 file system for DOS and Windows 95, and now the commonly used Windows 98 2000 XP and other systems support the FAT16 file system. It can manage partitions up to 2GB in size, but each partition can only have up to 65,525 clusters (clusters are a unit of disk space configuration).

As the capacity of a hard disk or partition increases, each cluster will take up more and more space, resulting in wasted hard disk space.

FAT32: With the advent of high-capacity hard drives, starting with Windows 98, FAT32 became popular. It is an enhanced version of FAT16 and can support partitions up to 2TB (2048GB).

The FAT32 uses smaller clusters than the FAT16, which effectively saves hard disk space.

NTFS: A disk format supported by the Microsoft Windows NT kernel family of operating systems specifically designed for network and disk quotas, file encryption and other management security features. With the popularization of Windows 2000 XP with NT as the kernel, many individual users have begun to use the data file storage in clusters, but the size of the cluster in NTFS does not depend on the size of the disk or partition.

The reduction in cluster size not only reduces the waste of disk space, but also reduces the possibility of disk fragmentation. NTFS supports file encryption management and provides users with a higher level of security.

2. What system can support NTFS file system?

Only Windows NT 2000 XP can recognize NTFS systems, and Windows 9X ME and DOS cannot support and recognize NTFS disks. Since the DOS system does not support the NTFS system, it is best not to make the C: disk as the NTFS system, so that it is easy to repair the system under the DOS system after the system crashes.

XP system requirements are NTFS partitions, this format is more space-saving, and there are a lot of optimized file attributes, it is recommended to use, but also compress and encrypt, some system category files are compressed under NTFS, not available under FAT.