NTFS also supports 64bit will be best. FAT32 is 32bit only, can only hold files no bigger tha 4GB, FAT32 can only be formatted into drives lower than 36GB or if it lets your reformatte it to FAT32, FAT32 will make drives larger than 36GB very slow.
NTFS is
NTFS (Windows NT File System) is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred file system for Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. NTFS has several improvements over FAT and HPFS (High Performance File System) such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization, plus additional extensions such as security access control lists (ACL) and file system journaling. The file system specification is a trade secret,although it can be licensed commercially from Microsoft through their Intellectual Property licensing program.
History
In the mid 1980s Microsoft and IBM formed a joint project to create the next generation graphical operating system. The result of the project was OS/2, but eventually Microsoft and IBM disagreed on many important issues and separated. OS/2 remained an IBM project. Microsoft started to work on Windows NT. The OS/2 filesystem HPFS contained several important new features. When Microsoft created their new operating system, they borrowed many of these concepts for NTFS.Probably as a result of this common ancestry, HPFS and NTFS share the same disk partition identification type code (07). Sharing an ID is unusual since there were dozens of available codes, and other major filesystems have their own code. FAT has more than nine (one each for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, etc.). Algorithms which identify the filesystem in a partition type 07 must perform additional checks.
When it was first introduced, the acronym NTFS was understood to stand for New Technology File System. It was later abbreviated to NT File System and then to NTFS.
Versions
NTFS has five released versions:
* v1.0 with NT 3.1, released mid-1993
* v1.1 with NT 3.5, released fall 1994
* v1.2 written by NT 3.51 (mid-1995) and NT 4 (mid-1996) (occasionally referred to as "NTFS 4.0", because OS version is 4.0)
* v3.0 from Windows 2000 ("NTFS V5.0")
* v3.1 from Windows XP (autumn 2001; "NTFS V5.1"), Windows Server 2003 (spring 2003; occasionally "NTFS V5.2"), Windows Vista (mid-2005) (occasionally "NTFS V6.0") and Windows Server 2008
V1.0 and V1.1 (and newer) are incompatible: that is, volumes written by NT 3.5x cannot be read by NT 3.1 until an update on the NT 3.5x CD is applied to NT 3.1, which also adds FAT long file name support.V1.2 supports compressed files, named streams, ACL-based security, etc. V3.0 added disk quotas, encryption, sparse files, reparse points, update sequence number (USN) journaling, the $Extend folder and its files, and reorganized security descriptors so that multiple files which use the same security setting can share the same descriptor.V3.1 expanded the Master File Table (MFT) entries with redundant MFT record number (useful for recovering damaged MFT files).
Windows Vista introduced Transactional NTFS, NTFS symbolic links, partition shrinking and self-healing functionality though these features owe more to additional functionality of the operating system than the file system itself.
Features
NTFS v3.0 includes several new features over its predecessors: disk usage quotas, sparse file support, reparse points, distributed link tracking, and file-level encryption, also known as the Encrypting File System (EFS).
Alternate data streams (ADS)
Alternate data streams allows files to be associated with more than one data stream. For example, a file such as text.txt can have an ADS with the name of text.txt:secret (of form filename:streamname) that can only be accessed by knowing the ADS name or by specialized directory browsing programs. Alternate streams are not detectable in the original file's size but are lost when the original file (i.e. text.txt) is deleted with a RemoveFile or RemoveFileTransacted call (or a call that uses those calls), or when the file is copied or moved to a partition that doesn't support ADS (e.g. a FAT partition, a floppy disk, or a network share). While ADS is a useful feature, it can also easily eat up hard disk space if unknown either through being forgotten or not being detected.
Quotas
Disk quotas were introduced in NTFS v3. They allow the administrator of a computer that runs a version of Windows that supports NTFS to set a threshold of disk space that users may utilize. It also allows administrators to keep track of how much disk space each user is using. An administrator may specify a certain level of disk space that a user may use before they receive a warning, and then deny access to the user once
FAT32 is
ile Allocation Table or FAT is a computer file system architecture now widely used on most computer systems and most memory cards, such as those used with digital cameras.
It was developed by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald during 1976–1977.[1][2] It is the primary file system for various operating systems including DR-DOS, OpenDOS, FreeDOS, MS-DOS, OS/2 (v1.1) and Microsoft Windows (through Windows Me). For floppy disks, it has been standardized as ECMA-107[3] and ISO/IEC 9293.[4][5] Those standards include only FAT12 and FAT16 without long filename support; long filenames with FAT is partially patented.
The FAT file system is relatively straightforward technically and is supported by virtually all existing operating systems for personal computers. This makes it a useful format for solid-state memory cards and a convenient way to share data between operating systems.
FAT
Developer Microsoft
Full Name File Allocation Table
(12-bit version) (16-bit version) (32-bit version)
Introduced 1980 (Seattle QDOS) November 1987, (Compaq DOS 3.31) August 1996 (Windows 95 OSR2)
Partition identifier 0x01 (MBR) 0x04, 0x06, 0x0E (MBR) 0x0B, 0x0C (MBR)
EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433
-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (GPT)
Structures
Directory contents Table
File allocation Linked List
Bad blocks Cluster tagging
Limits
Max file size 4 GB minus 1 byte (or volume size if smaller)
Max cluster count 4,077 (212-19) 65,517 (216-19) 268,435,437 (228-19)
Max filename size 8.3 filename, or 255 UTF-16 characters when using LFN
Max volume size 32 MB 2 GB
4 GB with 64k clusters (not widely supported) 2 TB
8 TB (with 2KB sectors)
Features
Dates recorded Creation, modified, access (accuracy to day only)
(Creation time and access date are only available when LFN support is enabled)
Date range January 1, 1980 - December 31, 2107
Forks Not natively
Attributes Read-only, hidden, system, volume label, subdirectory, archive
Permissions No
Transparent compression Per-volume, Stacker, DoubleSpace, DriveSpace No
Transparent encryption Per-volume only with DR-DOS No
History
The FAT file system was created for managing disks in Microsoft Standalone Disk BASIC. In August 1980 Tim Paterson incorporated FAT into his 86-DOS operating system for the S-100 8086 CPU boards;[6] the file system was the main difference between 86-DOS and its predecessor, CP/M.
The name originates from the usage of a table which centralizes the information about which areas belong to files, are free or possibly unusable, and where each file is stored on the disk. To limit the size of the table, disk space is allocated to files in contiguous groups of hardware sectors called clusters. As disk drives have evolved, the maximum number of clusters has dramatically increased, and so the number of bits used to identify each cluster has grown. The successive major versions of the FAT format are named after the number of table element bits: 12, 16, and 32. The FAT standard has also been expanded in other ways while preserving backward compatibility with existing software.
[edit] FAT12
The initial version of FAT is now referred to as FAT12. Designed as a file system for floppy diskettes, it limited cluster addresses to 12-bit values, which not only limited the cluster count to 4078,[7] but made FAT manipulation tricky with the PC's 8-bit and 16-bit registers. (Under Linux, FAT12 is limited to 4084 clusters.[8]) The disk's size is stored as a 16-bit count of sectors, which limited the size to 32 MB[9]. FAT12 was used by several manufacturers with different physical formats, but a typical floppy diskette at the time was 5.25-inch, single-sided, 40 tracks, with 8 sectors per track, resulting in a capacity of 160 KB for both the system areas and files. The FAT12 limitations exceeded this capacity by a factor of ten or more.
By convention, all the control structures were organized to fit inside the first track, thus avoiding head movement during read and write operations, although this varied depending on the manufacturer and physical format of the disk. At the time FAT12 was introduced, DOS did not support hierarchical directories, and the maximum number of files was typically limited to a few dozen. Hierarchical directories were introduced in MS-DOS version 2.0.[10]
A limitation which was not addressed until much later was that any bad sector in the control structures area, track 0, could prevent the diskette from being usable. The DOS formatting tool rejected such diskettes completely. Bad sectors were allowed only in the file area, where they made the entire holding cluster unusable as well. FAT12 remains in use on all common floppy disks, including 1.44MB ones.
[edit] Initial FAT16
In 1984, IBM released the PC AT, which featured a 20 MB hard disk. Microsoft introduced MS-DOS 3.0 in parallel. (The earlier PC XT was the first PC with a hard dr