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Chapter 6: Setting up the New Drive Manually
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Determining which file system to use
There are three types of file systems used to manage data on the hard drive:
■ File Allocation Table (FAT)16 lets your computer address 2.1 GB of drive
space per partition.
■ FAT32 lets your computer address up to 1 TB (1 terabyte) of drive space
per partition.
■ NT File System (NTFS) lets your computer address all of the drive space
as one partition.
Select the operating system and the file system to use:
* If you are creating a boot drive and your operating system is
Windows NT 4.0, we recommend that you use FAT16 to partition the
primary partition (up to 2 GB) of the drive and use NTFS to create the
extended partition.
** If you are creating a boot drive and your operating system is
Windows 2000, we recommend that you use FAT32 to partition the
primary partition (up to 4 GB) of the drive and use NTFS to create the
extended partition.
Operating system File system used
Windows 95 FAT16
Windows 95 with USB (OSR2) FAT32
Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition FAT32
Windows Me FAT32
Windows NT 4.0* FAT16 (primary); NTFS (extended)
Windows 2000** FAT32 (primary); NTFS (extended)
Windows XP NTFS