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Got a new Kingston 2gb pen drive.. Its already came formatted with FAT.. But is it good to leave as it is or FORMAT it FAT32 or NTFS??? plz help me.. thaks in advance

Hello Friends, I have purchased C2D 1.86 With 250Gb Seagate 7200.10 Sata2 (232Gb Available space) But I come across 1 doubt while win XP installation While making partition, XP setup is not allowing me to create 5 partitions of 46 GB in FAT file system(probably bcoz of 32GB limit)...

Hey Guys.. Is there any advantages of FAT over NTFS? What are the advantages?? Any drawbacks of FAT over NTFS? Please let me know...

How to format a USB based Flash Player to FAT 12 format,

i have win 98 , win 2000 & win xp on my pc and i recently install open suse 10 the grub screen at starting shows these options suse 10 windows failsafe ---------------------------- and selecting windows will take u to the old known menu with 3 options win xp win 2000 win 98...

I want to back up a laptop hdd, the problem is, it is not partitioned in fat 32, fat , ntfs, When I connected the Hdd to a desk top. In disk manager it detects the Hdd, but not in my computer, somebody suggested that the above said partition only detect in my computer. I want to copy the...

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This article describes how to convert FAT disks to NTFS. See the Terms sidebar for definitions of FAT, FAT32 and NTFS. Before you decide which file system to use, you should understand the benefits and limitations of each of them. Changing a volume's existing file system can be time–consuming...

hi can any one help me on retriving my mp3 's memory back. i have formatted it with fat .its memo goes dowm from 256 mb to118 mb.please send your answer on zcxvcx619@yahoo.com thanks[/b]

my sata HD has 4 FAT 32 partations it takes 25 minutes to defrag i if i change it to ntfs will it be faster how long does it take to change the parttions from fat32 to ntfs

When I delete files on a fat partition from FC4,it doesn`t actually delete them.When I boot into Windows I find a folder named Trash.vignesh and even the free space never increases.The same happened in Ubuntu only thing the deleted files were in that folder.So I deleted from Windows.How to...

hi, i hav 160 GB external I-O Data hardisk. by default it has a FAT partition, i am not sure if its FAT32 even, coz it shows as FAT when i right click -> properties or using any scandisk system... can i change to NTFS as its more secure??? are external hardisks compatible with those formats...

i recently divided my 80 gb HD into 2 partitions of about 35 GB each i made my C:\ (partition with Windows XP on it) FAT 32 and my D:\ (wich i use mainly for storage of big files) NTFS. Now when i copy big files from one disk to another it goes rele slow :cry: although my computer its self is...

Hi, When i installed WindowsXP on my system,I formatted the 80GB Samsung Puma HD into the following Partitions: C: 10.00 GB NTFS D: 10.00 GB FAT32 E: 20.00 GB FAT 32 F: 20.00 GB FAT 32 G: (Remainder) FAT32 Now,I have a DOS 7.10 ISO image with me on a CD. I want to Install...

difference between fat and vfat

Hi everybody, Can anybody Pls. tell me any way to convert my NTFS partition to FAT 32 without loosing any DATA of mine ??? Thanks !!!

I got my linux box running.If i want to remove the linux installation as well as convert the partition to fat 32 what should i do

Hi.......... I FORMATTED MY ALL PARTIONS WITH NTFS AND NOW I CAN'T GET ACCESS VIA DOS NOW I'VE NO ANY OS AND I WANT TO FORMATTING ALL IN FAT 32. HOW CAN I GET ACCESS IN DOS

I want to install the Suse 9.1 given with the digit dvd on august. the existing partition scheme of my 38 gb hdd is as follows. C:(ntfs)-windows and program files-15gb D:(ntfs)-documents, music, program codes etc.-15gb i have used the remaining 8 gb to house my rh9 installation. i had...

well we know that quick formatting a fat 32 partition means erasing the fat tables. but what does it mean to q format an ntfs partition? also what is the difference between full format and low level format(zero filling), if there is any.