Renegade — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:05:54 +0000

If you choose the format option when you install Windows XP, it should format the disk as NTFS.

If all else fails, get a Linux Live CD which can format to NTFS.

iuploadhere — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:19:49 +0000

you haven't tried formatting the drive in fat32 and then converting to ntfs winxp has a command that will allow you to do this.......but yes since a big change in fat32 to ntfs was security you will lose file permissions......

demonhale — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:59:58 +0000

just an assurance... the NTFS makes records of youre file (e.g where it is at for faster searches) which is not available anymore on a fat32 hdd... the file will be ok though...

teammatt3 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:15:51 +0000

Thanks Greg.

But if anything goes wrong... :flame:

Greg K — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:10:48 +0000

you should be able to do that with no problem. I think the only thing you might loose if file permissions (who owns the file), but the file itself will be fine. I have a 80gig HD i put in a USB enclosure and it is fat32.

-Greg