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Posted by J. Clarke on December 5, 2004, 2:15 am
Please log in for more thread options Howard Kaikow wrote:
> NTFS
>
> http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
>> I've got a new exterior USB hard drive that is unformated. My laptop
>> runs Windows XP formatted with NTFS. My question is, should I format the
>> exterior drive with NTFS or FAT32?
Really depends on what your intentions are with regard to the drive. If
it's going to be used only with your laptop or another XP machine then
NTFS. If it's going to be used portable storage that needs to be readable
from anything you plug it into then go with FAT32.
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--John
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