I thought when you format a HD you get a choice of either FAT16/32 or NTFS?
I thought when you format a HD you get a choice of either FAT16/32 or NTFS?
Not on my pc anyway. Just NTFS or FAT32
Ask Callum!
Anyway, as one of my tutors in this digital lark, how come I'm giving you advice?
Edit: Oops, my mistake. Look on the Cortex forum, you're trying to go the same way as me. (NTFS to FAT? )
Here's the post
http://www.cortex-pro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=816
Last edited by Excalibur; 11-05-2008 at 08:22 PM.
Hmm this thread has got me thinking! I dont think you will be seeing me for a while!
When you buy an external drive nowadays, they are pre-formatted - usually to the FAT32 filing system because (I think it's this way round) FAT32 offers true plug and play capability whereas with NTFS, you need to choose "Safely Remove Hardware" before unplugging. Something to do with NTFS continually writing to a drive - even when you've just read the drive it updates it drive records by writing to it. I'm no expert but I was reading this just a few days ago. The expert (in PC Advisor) said that NTFS is not much good for portable drives due to the way the filing system works. NTFS records the owner of a file which may prevent it being accessed from another PC/device other than that it was originally created on.
I have two Maxtor Basics 500GB drives. The first one was a breeze in setting up. Got it partitioned in to two drives pretty easily. The new one, although just updated from the older model (ie - it's in a new, smaller sleek-black case) refuses to be partioned and I've no idea why. I've been told a few suggestions but I might just leave it as one big drive for music and leave the admin files on the PC.
Dazzy D
Lightning Disco & Entertainment
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Youse should be ok. Hes wanting to make one hard drive into two. IE the PC sees two hard drives but phisicaly there is only one.