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FAT and FAT32

FAT and FAT32 offer compatibility with other operating systems. You must format the

system partition with either FAT or FAT32 if you will dual boot Windows XP Profes-

sional and another operating system that requires FAT or FAT32.

FAT and FAT32 do not offer many of the features (for example, file-level security) that

NTFS supports. Therefore, in most situations, you should format the hard disk with

NTFS. The only reason to use FAT or FAT32 is for dual booting with an older operating

system that does not support NTFS. If you are setting up a computer for dual booting,

you need to format the system partition that contains the older version of Windows

with FAT or FAT32. For example, if drive C is the system partition that holds Windows