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quinn222 at 10:58am on 24/12/2009
quinn222 at 10:58am on 24/12/2009LONDON!
OK. The actal winner of my 'name that drive' poll was San Francisco, but it turns out that has one more character than is allowed for drive names.London was one vote behind though so stepped in to take over the crown.
A note for those who purchase external drives and have Windows operating systems. These drives almost always come formatted Fat32 (I suppose to make them backwards compatible). Before you do anything you need to change the drive system to ntfs. Go into the command prompt (as admin in Vista) and type the following-
convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs, where drive_letter is the letter of the drive you want to convert, and then press ENTER. For example, convert E: /fs:ntfs would convert drive E to the NTFS format.
You may be asked for the label of the drive, in my case it was LONDON since I had already changed the name. If you do not do this not only will you get less storage space out of the drive but it will not allow you to store very large files on it. I'm allabout very large files so that's just not an option.
As long as your drive is not totally full you can still do this after you have started using the drive. It is not reversable but I can'[t imagine any scenario where you'd want to reverse it anyway.
OK. The actal winner of my 'name that drive' poll was San Francisco, but it turns out that has one more character than is allowed for drive names.London was one vote behind though so stepped in to take over the crown.
A note for those who purchase external drives and have Windows operating systems. These drives almost always come formatted Fat32 (I suppose to make them backwards compatible). Before you do anything you need to change the drive system to ntfs. Go into the command prompt (as admin in Vista) and type the following-
convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs, where drive_letter is the letter of the drive you want to convert, and then press ENTER. For example, convert E: /fs:ntfs would convert drive E to the NTFS format.
You may be asked for the label of the drive, in my case it was LONDON since I had already changed the name. If you do not do this not only will you get less storage space out of the drive but it will not allow you to store very large files on it. I'm allabout very large files so that's just not an option.
As long as your drive is not totally full you can still do this after you have started using the drive. It is not reversable but I can'[t imagine any scenario where you'd want to reverse it anyway.
Thank you
If I have any problems, I may be back with questions. FanSee
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