[G4] External HD Formatting Question

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

On Oct 24, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Ron Michael wrote:

> Thanks Tony--
> You told me what I needed to know. I have 120megs out of 160megs on 
> the external I'm talking about so really don't want to transfer it all 
> but I'm going to have to. Going to buy the 250gig Maxtor CompUSA has 
> this week for $99.00, format it Fat 32, then transfer my stuff there. 
> Then re-format the original drive Fat32 as well. Learn something new 
> every day on this internet thing.
> Thanks again.
> Ron
> _______________________________________________

The latest disk format that is used by Microsoft isn't FAT32, they now 
have FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File System and if you would like a detailed 
description of their madness look at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100108/

You might want to consider using their latest which I think is NTFS.

Best Regards, /\*_*/\

Harry (*^_^*)
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