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Product:
Windows� 2000 Professional Operating System
Company: Microsoft Corporation
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000
List Price: $319.00
Review By: Julien Jay
File System
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Table Of Contents |
Windows 2000, at least supports FAT32 file system. So it can be installed on FAT 32 and it will recognize all of your FAT 32 hard disks. NTFS 5 also comes in the box: it�s a brand new NT file system that adds some security enhancements (losing data is very difficult with this high secure file system) and it�s more faster than the FAT32. NTFS 5 will index your files and will secured the access due to its advanced encoded features. NTFS 5 also allows you to create, extend or mirroring your NTFS volumes without restarting your computer, it even logged all the changes and optimises the disk space�s allocation, etc. But your NTFS hard disks won�t be recognized by Windows 95/98/98SE if you use a dual boot. NTFS is reliable, but it is slower than FAT 32 format. However they are some problems with this new NTFS release: recent utilities like PowerQuest Partition Magic 5 doesn�t support NTFS5 for the moment also other programs like Antivirus, Defragmenter don�t recognize this file system.
Even if you�re free to use FAT32, if you want to use the new active directory service (used in intranet for MS Exchange server, for example) you�ll have to switch in NTFS. Windows 2000 surely supports the old good FAT 16 and NTFS file systems but it�s not really advised to use them. And for the first time ever, Windows NT includes a real defragmenter program!! In fact it�s a lighted release of DisKeeper.
