NTFS Vs. FAT32 security

From: Alexandro Dario Pestana (wpcd_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/08/03 

Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 14:48:40 +0100

I bought a new Western Digital Caviar 250GB HD and I will use it to store
drive image 2002 image files of my windows xp professional laptop and
desktop system discs and Confidential information so I formatted the HD in
NTFS file system my question is the following :
- If I encript the contents of some folders with confidential information
like password and other stuff and I have a system disaster that I need to
make a clean installation of windows xp professional, is it possible to read
again all the encripted files and non-encripted files in the 250GB HD
formatted in the NTFS file system or I will loose access to them forever or
I need to make again an account in windows xp professional with the same
username and password in order to get again access to that files ??

I read that NTFS is better than FAT32 because of file corruptions when power
goes down or other stuff in that cases NTFS is more secure but I need to
know if that security can not give a negative impact in my important data
backups as I'm a system administrator and never tryed to encript files
because the last HD for backups was formatted in FAT32.

Thanks in advance , I will wait for your good answers to my question.

DJ_Alex. - www.djalex.net - www.miradouro.net - msn messenger:
wpcd@hotmail.com

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