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Ars Technica has posted a Multiboot guide for Microsoft OSes.



Last, but not least, we have NTFS. Windows NT and Windows 2000 support and prefer NTFS. NTFS is fairly inefficient on volumes under 3 gigs, but as volume sizes increase it exceeds FAT32´s ability to scale efficiently, and it´s clearly the choice for today´s huge hard drives. Why the switch to NTFS from FAT? NTFS actually predates FAT32, and it was designed to not only scale better, but also to support the kinds of advanced things that Microsoft expected in a business OS. Hence, NTFS supports file system security and encryption (in Win2K only), which are not supported in FAT32. NTFS is, for most intents and purpose, superior to FAT32. For a very in-depth view of NTFS, check out Panders´ excellent works on the topic.
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