What is the best file system to use for a second hard drive when dual booting between WinXP and Win7

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What is the best file system to use for a second hard drive when dual booting between WinXP and Win7?

I am dual booting for legacy reasons, and I have a 2nd internal drive that I would like to use from both XP and 7.

Should I go with the standard NTFS? (will the secuirty features be an issue, with different SIDs from the different users)

Should I go with FAT32?

Should I try out the new exFAT?

Also, I curently have two of my 3 drives as "dynamic disks" and 1 spaned volume created on them. (i did this from XP) Win7 can see them/it fine. Is this an ok thing to do?

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What is the best file system to use for a second hard drive when dual booting between WinXP and Win7

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Published on 2010-04-07T14:06:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 14:13 UTC
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I am dual booting for legacy reasons, and I have a 2nd internal drive that I would like to use from both XP and 7.

Should I go with the standard NTFS? (will the secuirty features be an issue, with different SIDs from the different users)

Should I go with FAT32?

Should I try out the new exFAT?

Also, I curently have two of my 3 drives as "dynamic disks" and 1 spaned volume created on them. (i did this from XP) Win7 can see them/it fine. Is this an ok thing to do?

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