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diane b · 01-03-2008, 09:16 AM

I have an iomega Ext Hard Drive 320GB that I installed last summer & I have a couple of basic questions.
1. It is currently formatted in FAT32- do I need to change it to NTFS?
2. If I change the format, will I lose all the data in the hard drive?
3. I have Media Player set up to update files from the hard drive, but if I have my photos in the hard drive, Media Player pulls the photo files as well as the music files. Is this a problem?
You can probably tell I am a complete newbie here, but I had no instructions available with the new hardrive- just plug it in and use it.
Any help is appreciated

01-03-2008, 09:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
diane b Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3 OS: xp	hard drive formatting I have an iomega Ext Hard Drive 320GB that I installed last summer & I have a couple of basic questions. 1. It is currently formatted in FAT32- do I need to change it to NTFS? 2. If I change the format, will I lose all the data in the hard drive? 3. I have Media Player set up to update files from the hard drive, but if I have my photos in the hard drive, Media Player pulls the photo files as well as the music files. Is this a problem? You can probably tell I am a complete newbie here, but I had no instructions available with the new hardrive- just plug it in and use it. Any help is appreciated