huh? look here http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/f_ntfs.htm

Interesting, but why bother? It's must be for people who just won't let go. :) Musky Always assume pilot error!

YES! You can! There are some restricitons I belive. BUT, you need some files from Windows NT or higher (NT files can only read NTFS, need 2000/XP files to read NTFS5)

Unless you have a valid reason for NTFS, stick with FAT 32. Just for laughs I installed Win XP Pro on a 30 GB FAT 32 drive and ran Fresh Diagnose - system information and benchmarking http://www.snapfiles.com/get/freshdiagnose.html and received a write speed average of 17.84 MB/s and read speed average of 25.83 MB/s. Then I converted to NTFS. The benchmarks then were a write speed average of 14.36 MB/s and read speed average of 10.96 MB/s. Anyway you look at it, it's a major performance decrease. Perhaps with larger drives the performance decrease is not as dramatic. Do the test yourself and decide. Good luck, Sandor

Microsoft itself says if you convert fat32 to NTFS it has more overhead than a clean ntfs install and will run slower. NTFS has some additional security features that make it worthwhile in many situations--particularly on a network.