jcirish

I bought a new Seagate 300 gig External HD. It comes formatted as FAT32. I
want to use it on two computers, both of which are NTFS. Should I (must I)
reformat the new drive as NTFS? Should I partition the new drive? Two related
issues:

1. Tne HD on one of the computers is partitioned into C:\ which is NTFS and
F:\ which is FAT32. It's embarassing but I don't know where this partition
came from. It must have been set up by the vendor, Dell. The F:\ partition is
small in size and contains Dell stuff and MS DOS stuff.

2. The Seagate set up instructions state that if I reformat to NTFS I must
use their software, BounceBack Express, to access backed up files. Does that
mean I can't use native backup or drag-and-drop, etc? I've searched the
Seagate Web site for answers to this last question but could find no help.

Any help will be much appreciated

jcirish

Thanks for the reply, JS. If I reformat to NTFS, will that cause any problems
with the F:\ partition that is FAT32 on the computer HD?

rick

There are only two reasons that I can think of to use NTFS 1) if you
have security concerns, and 2) if you have very large files FAT32 might
be a problem.

Rick