Re: OEM hard drive questions -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: OEM hard drive questions
From: Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:29:35 -0700
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Dan wrote:

Based on David's comment, I'm guessing I will have to format. Not a
problem. Is there any reason why I should choose FAT32 over NTFS? (FWIW,
this is an internal drive used on a WinXP SP3 install.)

As others have mentioned, choose NTFS. If you are offered the option, I highly recommend you do NOT Quick Format. Quick format only clears the table entries, whereas the regular format will test each sector as it formats, and that's why it takes so long.

Bill

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