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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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 PostThank 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 …
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