NTFS, short for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1.
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It is the primary file system used in Microsoft's Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT operating systems.
The Windows Server line of operating systems also primarily uses NTFS. It is also supported in other operating systems, such as Linux and BSD. macOS provides read-only support for NTFS.
There are a number of ways to check whether a hard drive is formatted with NTFS or whether another file system is being used.
