FAT32 system began in the know on Windows 1995 SP2, and is developing more than FAT16. Jumlat FAT32 offers the ability to accommodate a larger cluster in the partition. It also can develop the ability to drive to be better than FAT16. However, FAT32 has a weakness that is not in the possession of limited FAT16 operating system that can recognize FAT32. Unlike FAT16 which can be known by almost every operating system, but it does not matter if you are running FAT32 on Windows XP because Windows XP does not care what the file system in use on the partition.
FAT16
FAT16 was introduced by MS-DOS in 1981 (already very long). Initially, the system is designed to manage files on the floppy drive and amended several times so used to manage files on my hard drive. The advantage is the FAT16 file system is compatible in almost every operating system either Windows 95/98/Me, OS / 2, Linux and even Unix. But there was the biggest problem of FAT16 is having a capacity of a fixed number of clusters in the partition, so the bigger hard drive then the size of the cluster will be greater, meaning that no matter how small the file will still take up 32 KB of disk. Another bad thing is FAT16 does not support compression, encryption and access control in the partition.
NTFS
NTFS on first introduced in Windows NT and is a file system that is really different compared to the FAT technology. NTFS offers better security, file compression, clusters and even support data encryption. NTFS is the standard file system for Windows Xp and if you do upgrade your ordinary Windows going in to ask if you want to upgrade to NTFS or keep using FAT. But if you've done an upgrade on Windows XP and do not make changes to NTFS it does not matter because you can convert it to NTFS at any time. But remember that if you are already using NTFS would be a problem if you want to downgrade to FAT without losing data.
FAT16
FAT16 was introduced by MS-DOS in 1981 (already very long). Initially, the system is designed to manage files on the floppy drive and amended several times so used to manage files on my hard drive. The advantage is the FAT16 file system is compatible in almost every operating system either Windows 95/98/Me, OS / 2, Linux and even Unix. But there was the biggest problem of FAT16 is having a capacity of a fixed number of clusters in the partition, so the bigger hard drive then the size of the cluster will be greater, meaning that no matter how small the file will still take up 32 KB of disk. Another bad thing is FAT16 does not support compression, encryption and access control in the partition.
NTFS
NTFS on first introduced in Windows NT and is a file system that is really different compared to the FAT technology. NTFS offers better security, file compression, clusters and even support data encryption. NTFS is the standard file system for Windows Xp and if you do upgrade your ordinary Windows going in to ask if you want to upgrade to NTFS or keep using FAT. But if you've done an upgrade on Windows XP and do not make changes to NTFS it does not matter because you can convert it to NTFS at any time. But remember that if you are already using NTFS would be a problem if you want to downgrade to FAT without losing data.
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