RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive?
FAT32 was used be the format use of smaller harddrives, harddrives for non-heavy use. If you wil have a lots of files on your disk and you wil heavy use is, fat32 is not the way to go. Also it crashes easier and crashes on fat32 can leave permanent cluster errors. A new harddisk is always in FAT32 because is a blank option then: if the users wants NTFS (more likely) you can convert it. But you can't convert NTFS to FAT32 easy again without messing. That's why they sell it FAT32 for users who do might want it, for what reason that might be...
This post was edited on 04-25-2005 at 03:52 PM by Exca.
But that is my opinion!
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