Product specifications

A-4
Managing Disks on a Windows 2000 System
Supported File Systems
The Windows 2000 operating system supports three types of file
system:
• Two types of File Allocation Table (FAT): FAT 16 and FAT 32. FAT
is used primarily when backward compatibility is needed on
operating systems such as MS-DOS
®
or other Windows versions.
The new FAT 32 file system is no longer limited to a 2-GB partition
size.
• New Technology File System (NTFS). NTFS affords the user
security, compression, and other file-recovery features. Drives
employing NTFS support partitions of any size.
n
You must use an NTFS file system on any partition used to store media.
c
One of your internal disk drives (normally designated drive C) has a
partition that contains the operating system. This drive might be
labeled System or Boot. You should not reformat this partition
unless you need to rebuild your system disk drive.
c
If you have stripe sets connected to an ATTO or Emulex controller
board in your Windows NT system, you must transfer the stripe sets
using the disk configuration floppy disk and import the
information to the Windows 2000 system (see “Transferring Disk
Drives from a Windows NT System” on page A-7).