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Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS?

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February 23, 10 10:42 AM (permalink)

Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS?

Hi:

I am going to be creating a partition on my Mac HD to install sonar 7. My question: FAT32 or NTFS? Basically, is there any real advantage other than file size?


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    auto_da_fe
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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 23, 10 11:14 AM (permalink)
    FAT32 is limited to file size under 4gb.

    NTFS allows larger file sizes.

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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 23, 10 11:52 AM (permalink)
    That's what I thought. thanks!

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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 23, 10 12:39 AM (permalink)
    NTFS has a lot of advantages-not just file size.
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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 23, 10 3:27 PM (permalink)
    Go NTFS, it's a faster system
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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 23, 10 4:03 PM (permalink)
    ntfs is faster and better , fat 32 is osx complient , this mean that you can access this partition from osx ....so to sum up stay ntfs , if you want to share a partition by both os then go fat 32

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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 24, 10 10:21 AM (permalink)
    if you want to share a partition by both os then go fat 32

    No, you can read/write ntfs from OSX with the NTFS-3G for OSX driver. I use it on all 3 of my bootcamped macs.

    NTFS is the way to go.
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    Re:Installing XP on my Imac: FAT32 or NTFS? February 24, 10 11:27 AM (permalink)
    good to know ! still don't use macs but good to know ... so yeah with this NTFS is definitely the way to go !!

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