Re: OEM hard drive questions

["Kurt Anderson" <kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

XP uses NTFS so I suggest formatting it as such.  There may be reasons
to format FAT32 for XP, but I'm unaware of them. 


Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith

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On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:22 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] OEM hard drive questions

Guys, thanks for all of the responses!

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Kurt Anderson
<kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> You have an extra cable but you haven't installed a SATA hard drive 
> before?  Makes me wonder why you have a cable then.  Just because I 
> don't know your knowledge of the subject, the SATA cable is different 
> than an IDE cable.  At the wiki you can see the mobo plug.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

Actually, I've *seen* them, just haven't installed one.  And I should
have clarified that my son told me that he has the cable, although,
thanks to your comment, I'm going to pursue that with him further just
to be sure.


> I don't know about "having" to format the hard drive, but you might as

> well (imo).  When you plug it in and start Windows, the OS should 
> recognize the new drive.  You can also manage your hard drives in the 
> Management Console (in Vista this is accessible via right-clicking the

> "My Computer" icon - maybe the same in XP?)


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.)

Thanks again!
Dan
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