Re: XP and NTFS

> there is no reason not to. no significant downside.
> the big benefit is a more stable disk structure.
> if you crash a fat32 system, you have a greater chance of corrupting
> your operating system than if you crash under ntfs.

On the flipside, it can be a lot harder to recover data from an NTFS
drive when XP spits its dummy out - and it will - particularly with
multi-user accounts.

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