If you have no need to use the drive on systems that will not read NTFS
(such as a Mac, a linux box or Win9x) then you did the right thing
formatting it in my opinion.
NTFS is a far more robust fileing system that FAT32 and is less likely
to become corrupt if the external case is powered down or
XP can handle FAT32 drives fine. Lots of other systems can handle FAT32.
Not so much with NTFS.
XP (and W2K) won't format a drive over 30Gig to FAT32. Moreover, they
waste an hour of your time pretending to work before telling you (in a
very obscure way) that they failed. Partition Magic doesn't
I guess I'm a little late, but you didn't have to reformat it. FAT32 can
be read and written to by XP...and Macs. NTFS does not play well with
Macs. However, unless you're using a Mac, it shouldn't make a
difference to you.
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Thanks. Main hard drive was NTFS, so I reformatted the external to
match.
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I don't know if you'll have to reformat the disk, it depends if you are
using NTFS or FAT32 in the main hard disk.
If you want to though, right click on My Computer, click Manage and
then click on Disk Management
There you will have the new disk, right click on it and select format,
it should le
