i ll b formattin my xp home service pack 2.......i need 4 partitions in my comp..........harddisk memory is 80 gb..............tell me whether to format usin NTFs or fat 32 ?????which 1 is better????

Format drives using ntfs format cause ntfs format enables compression of data also & is recommended when u r using net.......

Rate me if useful!!!!!!!

NTFS has more overhead than FAT32.

But FAT32 will have larger cluster sizes than NTFS.



Depending on partition size, I would be apt to go with mixed formatting on this drive.



Any partition smaller than 10 GB "may" make better use of disk space with FAT32.



Partitions larger than 20GB will be better off with NTFS.



I would want the boot/OS partition to be NTFS if it were my system.