Re: XP and NTFS

Bill <bgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did not use the NTSF option when I installed XP. (Either I didn't
> see it come up during installation or I slept through it.) What
> advantages would I gain from making the conversion now?

Encryption, access rights, more than 2 terabytes of addressable disk
storage, a different underlying cluster schema.

You'd know if you needed any of these. I've only ever been interested
in access rights myself.

.

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