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22-22 Chapter 22 Implementing and Conducting Administration of Resources
Objective 2.4
Configure and Manage File
Systems
Windows XP Professional supports both basic disks and dynamic disks. Basic disks are
the only format available to Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, and earlier operating systems.
Dynamic disks support three different types of volumes: simple volumes,
spanned volumes, and striped volumes. Simple volumes exist within a single disk.
Spanned volumes concatenate multiple disks into a single volume. Striped volumes are
similar to spanned volumes in that they combine multiple drives. However, striped volumes
also improve performance because they enable data to be read from or written
to both disks simultaneously.
Windows XP supports FAT and NTFS file systems for accessing local disks. The FAT16
and FAT32 file systems allow for dual booting with Windows 95, Windows 98, or
Windows Me. NTFS is the preferred file system, however, and adds user-level file
permissions, compression, encryption, disk quotas, volume mount points, directory
junctions, and more. Windows XP provides the Convert.exe tool to convert from FAT
to NTFS for users upgrading from previous operating systems.
Several additional file systems are available for accessing removable media. Floppy
disks are formatted with FAT12, a version of FAT optimized for low-capacity media.
The CD-ROM File System (CDFS) is the standard format for CD-ROMs. Universal Disk
Format (UDF) is primarily used for digital video disc (DVD) access.