It_is_Andrew
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I have bought 2.5" 60Gb seagate harddisk & a external HDD cassing set which i intend to use as a portable storage device.
Now i am confusd about which filsystem to choose while formatting the harddisk (ntfs or fat32).
Primarily i thought & was adviced to make a large ntfs partition & a smaller (<8gb) fat32 partition( incase i may need to use it in a win98 system & as one cant format larger than 32 gb in fat32 from disk management directly.)
but later i heard one may have problem with NTFS file format in a usb storage device because if you choose NTFS you cant use the option for the device "optimize for quick removal" anymore & then you have to always go through the "safely remove wizard" to detach the usb device from system or it may lead to data loss.
Now i am confused which would be best way to partition it & in which format?
Please suggest & if anyone use this kinda assembled portable hdd , please mention what you have done i your case.
Now i am confusd about which filsystem to choose while formatting the harddisk (ntfs or fat32).
Primarily i thought & was adviced to make a large ntfs partition & a smaller (<8gb) fat32 partition( incase i may need to use it in a win98 system & as one cant format larger than 32 gb in fat32 from disk management directly.)
but later i heard one may have problem with NTFS file format in a usb storage device because if you choose NTFS you cant use the option for the device "optimize for quick removal" anymore & then you have to always go through the "safely remove wizard" to detach the usb device from system or it may lead to data loss.
Now i am confused which would be best way to partition it & in which format?
Please suggest & if anyone use this kinda assembled portable hdd , please mention what you have done i your case.