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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.
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NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by alegator on 04-25-2005 at 10:07 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by user13774 on 04-25-2005 at 10:23 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by alegator on 04-25-2005 at 10:40 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by RaceProUK on 04-25-2005 at 11:42 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-25-2005 at 03:46 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by Exca on 04-25-2005 at 03:50 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by user13774 on 04-26-2005 at 09:36 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-26-2005 at 10:49 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by user13774 on 04-27-2005 at 11:02 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by alegator on 04-28-2005 at 02:39 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 11:20 AM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 01:23 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 01:46 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 01:54 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 02:08 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by Hank on 04-29-2005 at 02:09 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by surfichris on 04-29-2005 at 02:09 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 02:15 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 02:31 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by Hank on 04-29-2005 at 02:36 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 02:39 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 02:40 PM
RE: RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 03:09 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 03:15 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 03:21 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 03:26 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by TheBlasphemer on 04-29-2005 at 03:37 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 03:50 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by CookieRevised on 04-29-2005 at 04:15 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by squall_leonhart69r on 04-29-2005 at 04:42 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by RaceProUK on 04-29-2005 at 05:29 PM
RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive? - by TheBlasphemer on 04-29-2005 at 05:41 PM


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