RE: [wdvltalk] OT: convert FAT32 drive to NTFS?

2007-01-08 Thread Cheryl D Wise
? I don't think those two things have anything to do with each other. Make your disks and you can boot from them. Cheryl D Wise MS MVP FrontPage http://by-expression.com - new forums: http://forum.by-expression.com Online instructor led training http://starttoweb.com Now registering for our Janua

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: convert FAT32 drive to NTFS?

2007-01-08 Thread PBC Web Design
At 07:46 AM 1/8/2007, you wrote: Make sure you burn a set of recovery dvds (or cds depending on which your system makes) if your machine did not come with them before you do anything else. The reason some computers ship as FAT 32 instead of NTFS is so that you can boot to a recovery partition to

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: convert FAT32 drive to NTFS?

2007-01-08 Thread Cheryl D Wise
Deb, Make sure you burn a set of recovery dvds (or cds depending on which your system makes) if your machine did not come with them before you do anything else. The reason some computers ship as FAT 32 instead of NTFS is so that you can boot to a recovery partition to reinstall the OS, etc. if som

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: convert FAT32 drive to NTFS?

2007-01-08 Thread PBC Web Design
At 04:08 AM 1/8/2007, you wrote: Hi Deb I'd strongly recommend you convert your drive to NTFS. There are a number of benefits to using NTFS, such as minimising "wasted" space when you save data, data encryption and file system security. FAT32 is now seriously outdated when working with large har

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: convert FAT32 drive to NTFS?

2007-01-08 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Hi Deb I'd strongly recommend you convert your drive to NTFS. There are a number of benefits to using NTFS, such as minimising "wasted" space when you save data, data encryption and file system security. FAT32 is now seriously outdated when working with large hard drives, especially if you're runn