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What two file systems can windows use to format a hard drive and which system supports the most storage capacity?
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Windows basically uses two file systems:-
1. FAT
2. NTFS
FAT stands for File Allocation Table. FAT was first introduced in 1980 as FAT12, followed by FAT16 in 1984 and finally FAT32 in 1996. The numbers 12, 16 and 32 represent the bit size of a FAT system.
Nowadays, in Windows we get to see two FAT options which are FAT and FAT32. Simply FAT means FAT16. FAT16 partition size is limited at 2 GB for sector size of 512 bytes.FAT32 volume size is 2 TB for a sector size of 512 bytes and 16 TB for a sector size of 4,096 bytes. The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 byte or 4,294,967,295 (232−1) bytes.
NTFS stands for New Technology File System and supersedes FAT system. NTFS was introduced in 1993. It allows a maximum volume size of 256TB and 16TB file for sector size of 64KB. It has numerous advantages over FAT systems.
Microsoft is coming up with a new file system with the release of Windows 8.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoNtfs and fat32 it is the type of format both format will have same space the advantage in ntfs is we can give quota for the user while network sharing its better to be in ntfs format
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What Windows file system supports the most storage capacity?
NTFS.
Which operating system supports dynamic storage?
Windows 2000
Are file systems supported by Windows XP are the same as those supported by Windows 98SE?
Windows 98 supports FAT filesystems only. Windows XP supports FAT and NTFS filesystems.
What file systems does Windows NT and Windows 2000 support?
Windows NT4 supports: FAT, NTFS (version 4) Windows 2000 supports: FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (versions 4 and 5)
What file systems does Windows 98 suppport?
Windows 98 supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and ISO9660 (on CDs).
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What are the two file systems Windows supports and list at least 2 advantages of the one preferred by Microsoft?
they are NTFS and FAT13
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