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Old April 22nd, 2008, 07:39 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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What format on external drive
I bought a 1 Terrabyte USB 2.0 external drive for my computer. I'm running WinXP SP2.

The drive is formatted FAT32 by default which unfortunately limits me to files smaller than 4 gigs in size.

Is it possible to format this drive to NTFS or does it have to stay FAT32?

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Yes you can partition and format to what you want. It's just like any other drive.
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Great. Many thanks.

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Keep in mind that FAT16 works best on flash drives.
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