Have a user with a new laptop (Acer Travelmate), and I was loading it up with the usual apps (Office, antivirus, Firefox, flash, etc.) when I noticed it was FAT32. Now the drive is partitioned, and ...

You can't go back to FAT32 without formatting. At least not natively in Windows. Perhaps there's a third party tool somewhere that will do it. You want to go from a modern, hard linking, journalling, ...

I recently replaced the hard drive in my notebook computer. I just love getting new hardware! My new drive is faster (5,400 RPM as opposed to 4,800), larger by 10GB and quieter. I also doubled my RAM ...

You plug in a fresh USB drive, Windows asks how you'd like to format it, and then you're staring at a dropdown menu offering three cryptic acronyms: NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. No explanation. No guidance ...

When you have a new hard drive, or when you're reinstalling Windows, the OS may ask you to format the drive. If given a choice, the two common modes are NTFS and FAT32. But what are those, and why ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

NTFS and FAT are a file system that represents a technique of organizing and storing the data on the drive. These file systems also specify what type of attributes can be attached to a file such as ...

I recently replaced the hard drive in my notebook computer. I just love getting new hardware! My new drive is faster (5,400 RPM as opposed to 4,800), larger by 10GB and quieter. I also doubled my RAM ...