>Now that you can pick up a Terabyte USB HD for about $115 (Amazon) others may find this useful. The WD Elements drive is a beautiful thing, cheap, rugged and big. It comes formatted as Fat32. In the past when I pick up a big drive like this I reformat with NTFS - takes as much as 4 hours.
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>Under the category of "who knew?" there is a windows command to convert a file system and you can even do it on a drive with data. Works in Vista or XP. Converted my new drive in about 5 minutes
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-a-FAT32-Disk-to-NTFS-in-Windows-Vista-51792.shtmlI am wondering, what is the advantage of formatting the external drive with NTFS vs FAT32?
(I am about to start using my new WD large external drive for back up and remembered your message).
UPDATE: I just read a couple of articles on the web about advantages of NTFS over FAT32. So I understand it better now.
Thank you for the technical tip.
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