Re: Change file system on new HD?

Godzilla wrote:

I believe that new hard disks come formatted as FAT32. Would there be an
advantage in re-formatting it to ext. 3?

I bought a Western Digital 250 SATA disk recently and it was unformatted - as were all the others I've bought over the years.

However I also just bought a new Lenovo PC with windows XP pre-installed. I was wondering whether to shrink the NTFS partition before or after configuring XP and decided to do it afterwards. I was surprised to find that the disk was FAT32, and the first thing XP did was reformat it to NTFS. Odd.

Dave
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