Removable Drive Format

All three formats are supported by 7 and XP. FAT partitions are limited to 2 GB; unless you partion the disk first, you would not be using the full capacity of the drive.

Why format the disk? They usually come preformatted. Just plug and play is the best bet if you don't know what you are doing.

Geez, talk about bad info in that article.

I use Linux to fix broken Windows NTFS file systems as MS won't provide the tools!!

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MS actually recommends using a Linux LiveCD to fix their file systems in some of their help documents...

Thanks for all of your answers, Gents. I think I will use FAT32 and see how that does. Take care and stay warm!!

Hi

As you are moving beteween Windows 7 and Xp , best is Fat32. But if you like to be kind of universal, use Fat. Using Fat make you eligible to all MS OS including Win95.

Have fun.

Actually, Win95 could handle FAT32. I forget some of the details, and it is just possible that this was only possible with Win95b (or after installation of one of the service packs).

Iirc, during installation, it would give you some sort of message saying something about your disk size being bigger than could be handled by the standard file system (or wasting a lot of space if it did try to handle it) and give you an option to use a different file system. (It never used the words "file system", but you were essentially choosing between using FAT and FAT32.)