. Everyone has noticed that when installing Windows 2000, the system will ask if we use the NTFS file format. So what exactly is the NTFS format, what are its advantages? NTFS was originally used mainly for Windows NT. In addition to all the advantages of the FAT file system, NTFS also provides the following features not found in the FAT or FAT32 file system:
a, NTFS supports file encryption and separate management functions. Can provide users with a higher level of security assurance.
b, NTFS has better disk compression performance, which can further meet the needs of small hard disk users.
c, NTFS supports up to 2TB of large hard disk, and its performance will not decrease with the increase of disk capacity.
Thus, NTFS format has many unique advantages, but it also has a fatal flaw, that is, the disk file format can not be identified (NT 4.0 is no other Caozuoxitong addition to its own Exceptions), this has had a certain impact on data exchange. Therefore, users who only use Windows 2000 should prefer to use the NTFS format. Users who use Windows 2000 and other operating systems should be cautious. It is best to divide the disk into multiple different disk partitions, install Windows 2000 to one of the disk partitions and choose to use the NTFS format; install the other operating systems to another disk partition and use the FAT or FAT32 format.
we mentioned earlier, NTFS and FAT file format has the advantage of FAT32 and other file formats can not match, so many users want to convert the original system disk to NTFS format. To this end, we can take several different ways:
1, users begin to install Windows 2000, the system will ask the user choose to install Windows 2000 format disk partition, we simply choose "use the NTFS file The system format disk partition option, the Windows 2000 installer will automatically format the user-specified disk partition and convert the file to NTFS format.
2, when a user's Windows 2000 installation has been completed, we then want to convert a partition to NTFS format, it should advance will need to convert all the information on the disk partition backup all down, then in Explorer Right-click on the disk partition in My Computer or My Computer and select the "Format" command. Next we should select the "NTFS" format in the "File System" column and select the "Assign Unit Size", whether to use the Quick Format function, and whether to use the compression method (select "Assign Unit Size" and whether to adopt it. The compression method is unique to NTFS). After setting, click the "Start" button, the system will format the drive selected by the user and convert it to NTFS format.
3, the two methods described earlier will need to reformat the hard disk, which is unacceptable to those who save a lot of important data on the hard disk for! Don't worry, the system deliberately provides the function of lossless conversion. We just need to click the Win+R shortcut to open the Windows 2000 Run dialog box, then enter "Convert X: /fs:ntfs" in the "Open" field (where X is The user needs to convert to the NTFS format disk partition) command, the system will automatically convert the user-specified disk partition to NTFS format, and retain all the original data in the disk partition.
4, Convert described earlier although can solve the problem of converting non-destructive NTFS format, but we want the system disk partition where the system is processed (that is, it can not be for the current Windows 2000 system partition processing !!!). In this case, using a partition magician may be our only choice.
Partition Magic is a very good disk partition management software, in addition to conventional disk partition function, there is a very important feature is the ability to achieve lossless conversion between different disk formats, other partitions Formatting lossless conversion to NTFS format is certainly not a problem. To do this, we simply start the partition magic, then right click on the disk that needs to be converted to NTFS and execute the "FAT to NTFS" or "FAT32 to NTFS" command from the pop-up shortcut menu "Convert" submenu. Clean and neat.