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Boot Camp Format

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apthai

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Mar 5, 2008
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I recently purchased a MacBook (Early 2008). I'm thinking about running Boot Camp with WinXP cause that will then allow me to get rid of my windows laptop.

When I started the Boot Camp Assistance and it restarted I was presented with an option about how I want to format my drive.

NTFS
NTFS(Quick)
FAT
FAT (Quick)
Leave current drive

Which option is best? I know that if I leave it at FAT, I'll beable to access the windows partition in OSX? But isn't NTFS a better format for Windows?

I'm not too sure what to choose so any opinion or facts about each would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
TEG

TEG

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Jan 21, 2002
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FAT has problems with file sized approaching and exceding 4GB, but for most applications, that isn't a big deal. Also, NTFS is a journaled file system, but again, not a big deal. I'd go with FAT, just to have the flexability of getting stuff off of my Windows partition whenever I needed it.

TEG
 
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