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Help with External harddisk

Started by cobhcf , Jul 01 2005 05:36 PM

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cobhcf
Posted 01 July 2005 - 05:36 PM

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Hi guys, i recently bought this new 250GB external harddisk. Iam not sure if i should use NTFS or FAT32 file system on it. My operatin system is Windows XP with NTFS file system on both drives. Please help me out with this.

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Posted 01 July 2005 - 06:28 PM

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I use NTFS on mine. Do you have some compelling reason to use FAT32?
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Posted 02 July 2005 - 12:01 AM

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I dont. But the formatting utility that came with the HDD formatted it into FAT32. Should i keep it or format it to NTFS????????

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