Summary: Does formatting a hard drive ruin it? I obtained an old laptop which originally had 2000, then XP. When I deleted the NTFS partition and tried to fo...
Summary: I recently bought a Seagate 1tb External Hard Drive, it is in NTFS but I need it to be in FAT32 as I intend to use it to stream video files (.avi) thr...
Summary: You can try Partition Magic but there is no guarantee that the operation will succeed. I think aegis1 gave you the best advice - get another drive. By...
Summary: Hi Everyone, My LG Scarlet LCD TV has a USB point. I bought a HDD of 150 GIG to put on ALL my movies/series/music/etc. but my TV only reads FAT32......
Summary: OK, got it fixed! Whatta mess! Apparently early in my attempts to go back from NTFS to FAT32 I used (or misused) SwissKnife or one of a few other uti...
Summary: There is no way to FAT-32 from NTFS. U have to repartition ur drive. That means u have to lose ur data. But it is possible to conver NTFS fro FAT 32. ...
Summary: At the beginning. Once the windows XP screen comes up it is really fast. In addition to trying the USB keyboard, I formated a slave HD from NTFS to ...
Summary: I just purchased an External Hard Drive (7200rpm-120GB). My intent is to make this a USB 2.0 supplemental drive in support of my small 20GB internal ...
Summary: Filesystem makes no difference on games but NTFS is better supported in 2K/XP. ie defragmenting. We all know the effect of fragmentation on system pe...
Summary: If you are not interested in preserving the data already on those partitions, just format them, only make it FAT32 instead of NTFS. I believe Win 2000...
Summary: I bought an external USB hd for customer backup purposes and formatted as NTFS. I want to convert it to FAT32 because not all of my customers use an o...
Summary: One of the great debates... Seems the whole world screams, "NTFS!" these days. Me? I stick with FAT32 because I have no need for, and am not intereste...
Summary: Tubesandwires & all of you reading this. first of all thank you for your reply Motherboard :ASUS #CUSL2 Harddisk : Maxtor 160gb Xppro first version on...
Summary: guys i have tried every thing from defragmenting to formatting from fdisk to partition magic. I use FAT32 instead of NTFS because this is my home pc. ...
Summary: OK, First off, You need to have service pack 3 installed in order to use more than 137GB. That is, IF your BIOS will be able to see the entire drive....
Summary: Back when I switched from win98 to XP Home I chose to stay with fat32 as at the time I had never dealt with ntfs. I am a if it aint broke don't fix it...
Summary: >> NTLDR is missing hit CTRL ALT DELETE to reboot. That means the drive was formatted in NTFS << It does not. It means the system cant find an ...
Summary: Hi, a friend of mine gave me his external hard drive (western digital 500gig) because it stopped working. basically the every time we tried to click o...
Summary: I bought a new external 500 gb hard drive but it came as NTFS and the Pinnacle device I bought to convert video requires the drive to be FAT32. I can...
Summary: Hi all I know there have been variations of this question, so please forgive the redundancy: I have a Dell Dimension L500cx computer with an Intel Ce...
Summary: Hi. You need to go back to fdisk and delete non dos partitions. Fdisk sees NTFS as non dos. When you have done that, select item 1> create a primary d...
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