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1 Origins of FAT and NTFS 2 Features of NTFS vs FA 3 Comparison of Advantag 4 Video explaining the diffe 5 Related Articles 6 References

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File Allocation Table Wikipedia NTFS Wikipedia Default cluster size for NT

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Ahmed Ismail Cairo, Egypt . Reply Like May 13 at 6:08am Maslow Jenkins Top Commenter Works at Independent Researcher

Can't say I agree on the idea that fat32 is necessarily more cross-platform friendly, thanks to the ntfs-3g module available for linux :|. Reply Like May 2 at 10:38pm MaRivic Herrera Inocencio Cashier at Sa bhay at tndhn nmin hehehe thanks I gain lot of knowledge in this article...:) . Reply Like April 29 at 12:58am Michelle Moncinilla ok Reply Like May 6 at 4:32am Rubio Rondo Raza Works at BUSSENESS MAN very informative.. thanks Reply Like April 7 at 12:58am Zee Shani Uni of education it is helpful. Reply Like March 10 at 1:53pm Fadi Abumansour Teacher Assistant at | Taibah University thumbs up Reply Like March 6 at 9:38am Georgez Kioko RTI good insight Reply Like February 9 at 4:29am Asher Imran Saint Mary's Academy In Windows computer system NTFS is a better option. Reply Like January 9 at 11:22am Geofrey Nnko Old tanga secondary l like t. Reply Like December 5, 2012 at 1:14am Zubair Alam Hindu College, Moradabad good Reply 1 Like October 8, 2012 at 7:09am

cegaskin (signed in using yahoo) I know how FAT works would like to know how NTFS works. Any knowledge? Reply Like October 21, 2012 at 4:45am Devesh Pandit K.V.NO. 1 nice one Reply Like July 8, 2012 at 6:55am Muhammad Shuja Works at Apna Microfinance Bank Limited nice Reply Like January 18, 2012 at 6:14am
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