I am fairly new to computers but not afraid to get my feet wet. I installed a 2nd used hard drive to my system. Went great. When I go to explorer and look at properties my C drive is NTFS and the other (e) is FAT 32. Is this the way its supposed to be or should I change it, or can I change it .
williamh 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostNTFS and Fat32 are just different types of partitions. Your main hard drive is using the more modern filesystem NTFS, while the hard drive you just installed uses the older type Fat32.
It doesn't really matter much, although NTFS is supposedly faster and safer than FAT. If you care, …
Jump to Postdont convert it if you have another OS on that drive
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John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
NTFS and Fat32 are just different types of partitions. Your main hard drive is using the more modern filesystem NTFS, while the hard drive you just installed uses the older type Fat32.
It doesn't really matter much, although NTFS is supposedly faster and safer than FAT. If you care, you can convert the drive to NTFS.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx
williamh 0 Newbie Poster
Thank you very much joeprogrammer. How would I change from one to the other?
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Thank you very much joeprogrammer. How would I change from one to the other?
The link I provided in my previous post describes partition conversion from FAT32 to NTFS. However, beware: NTFS conversion is a one-way ticket. Once you convert a FAT32 drive to NTFS, there's no easy way to convert a drive back to FAT32, unless you completely redo the partition table (which involves reformatting the hard drive).
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
dont convert it if you have another OS on that drive
03humphrec 0 Newbie Poster
format it by right clicking on my computer then manage.
click disk manager right click on the hdd then format then select NTFS or FAT 32
I am fairly new to computers but not afraid to get my feet wet. I installed a 2nd used hard drive to my system. Went great. When I go to explorer and look at properties my C drive is NTFS and the other (e) is FAT 32. Is this the way its supposed to be or should I change it, or can I change it .
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