I forgot to add that, IIRC NTFS was first introduced in HP Unix OS long 
ago and it was called HPFS, then improved and used in WinNT 4.X NTFS 
v.4), some more improvement in Win2K (NTFS v.5), little improvement in 
WinXP (NTFS v.5.1 if I'm not mistaken, don't recall it clearly). 
Improvement of course in speed, security, self-protection and fault 
tolerant, even some viruses have problem damaging purposely the NTFS, 
and you need to really mess around your PC a lot to have a warning in 
the System Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc, System)and then an error message 
saying the NTFS is damaged. Most of the times, not always, Windows will 
start the chkdsk utility at boot-time to check and repair the File 
System if the partition is marked as "dirty" (a byte on each partition 
system area volume status area).

Cheers.

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