FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -NTFS has always been a faster and more secure file system than FAT and FAT32. Windows 2000 and XP include a newer version of NTFS than Windows NT 4.0, with support for a variety of features including Active Directory. By default, Windows XP computers come configured with NTFS.

Detailed explanation-2: -The FAT32 file system supports smaller cluster sizes and larger volumes than the FAT file system, which results in more efficient space allocation. FAT32 file systems support a maximum partition size of 32 GB for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The maximum size file size is 4 GB.

Detailed explanation-3: -The FAT32 file system is commonly used in some older versions of Windows and not in the latest version. It is the updated version of the FAT16 file system, which is supported by Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and Windows Me. The FAT32 supports the minimum cluster size of 4 KB and hard disk size greater than 2 Gigabytes.

Detailed explanation-4: -A file allocation table (FAT) is a file system developed for hard drives that originally used 12 or 16 bits for each cluster entry into the file allocation table. It is used by the operating system (OS) to manage files on hard drives and other computer systems.