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by amriding :: Rate this Message:

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hi
                                           i have recently installed a freecom 160gb external usb2hdd drive, G  file system fat32, as my internal hard drive C. is file system ntfs, should the external be the same ? if so, how do i change it,  regards A.

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by f-king :: Rate this Message:

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Hi
Ntfs is faster and safer ,only problem is that machines prior to xp like windows millenium and 98 wont be able to access it as Ntfs can“t be accessed on a Fat32 machine but Fat can be accessed on a Ntfs one.
to convert it use Convert.exe ;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214579/en-us
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by r0b :: Rate this Message:

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I really hope u installed XP with NTFS, it rox!
It doesn't care if u have another File System on C drive, but consider what the other guy said about Win98, ME, 2K and all that crap.... ups... sorry...
told ya...