Formatting External Hard Drive

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Unless you have third party software to adjust the cluster size, some
partitioning applications can do this, formatting would be the better choice
and frankly the obvious one since there is no data on the drive to preserve.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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"Ken Ellis" <k@kandmellis.plus.com> wrote in message
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>I use Windows XP. I have just bought a Lacie 160gb USB 2.0 external hard
> drive
> which is already set up as FAT32. I want NTFS. Since no data is involved,
> is my best choice to use the Format command rather than the 'Convert H:
> FS:NTFS' with its possible cluster size problems?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Ken
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage (More info?)

Thank you, Chase for the catch and you're quite right, he can and should
format the disk from Disk Management. The instructions I posted are for
formatting the drive on which the OS resides as that cannot be formatted
while the OS is booted.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
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"Chase Overmire" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If your going to format within windows, use disk
> management.
>
> Go to the controll panel, in administrative tools,
> computer management, click disk management, right click
> the lacie drive, format ntfs