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RE: NTFS or FAT32 for an external drive?
actually its not done automatically
windows defaults to 12.5% of a hard disks space to reserve for the mft reserved space
on extremely large hard drives like 500gb, then its very easy to fill the reserved space completely
this is where that registry string comes in
allowing for more space to be reserved and more data to be allowed to be saved
only problem is the reserved space becomes fragmented resulting in a fragmented MFT
and when you format it goes back to the default 12.5% reserved space
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