[zobius]

hi hope you can help me with a problem a buddy bought a new drive(80gig) to hook up externally (via usb) wants to format it ntfs hes running xp home with fat32 and asked me how he should format it i told him to wait if i remember fat32 cant access at drive with ntsf am i right or is there a way to do this?
thank you in advance for you imput

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Doesn't matter. Recommend to format it NTFS, Windows will be able to read it.

[Neil Jones]

Doesn't matter. Recommend to format it NTFS, Windows will be able to read it.

[Whiskeyman]

It will not be able to write to NTFS though.

[zobius]

ok so mabye he should convert the fat 32 to ntfs? he should be able to do this w/o formating i believe

[Whiskeyman]

If he is going to be using the external drive with OSes only using NTFS, format the drive as NTFS and convert his XP drive to NTFS.

[zobius]

ok thank you for your advice it been very helpful