NT Files Systems
- Possible file systems for NT
- FAT - DOS based file system
- 16 bit, has strong likely hood of loss of usable space
- readable by DOS and OS/2
- drive C: needs to be fat for OS/2 or DOS dual boot
- RISC based computers require the FAT system
- completely insecure
- completely insecure
- NTFS - native NT based file system
- 32 bit file system
- only readable by NT
- required Macintosh client service
- built in local, file level security
- will preserve permissions from Netware migration
- cannot be converted to FAT or HPFS
- NT can read the following file systems
- NTFS
- FAT
- HPFS - file system used by OS/2
- CDFS - file system used by compact disks
The Microsoft Windows NT Virtual Lecture by
Patrick Watson
Florida Community College at Jacksonville
