Hardware Requirements and System Hardware Support
File Systems
- FAT16: File Allocation Table (FAT) file system is an older file system that is supported for backward compatibility
- FAT32: Uses a 32-bit numbering system to increase the number of data blocks that can be managed.
- exFAT: For portable flash memory devices with more than 32GB of space.
- NTFS
- New version of NT File System (NTFS)
- Enhancements over FAT technology
- Secured storage
- File names stored in Unicode format
- File and folder compression
- Disk space quotas by user
- Alternate data streams
- File encryption
- Volume mount point
- Fault tolerance
- Transactional NTFS
- CD-ROM File System (CDFS)
- Introduced with Windows NT 4
- Has been replaced with UDF as a preference for formatting removable media such as CDs and DVDs
- Universal Disk Format (UDF): A third-party standard that defines how to store data on removable media such as DVDs.