Best format for external Harddrive?

[natsu]

Hi all, I got a WD 1 Terabyte external hard drive.

I was wondering what is the best format for it? Cuz currently it is in FAT32, it seems like it only responds to Windows based machine's (to be more specific, Windows 7 machine's). Tried on a mac and did not work, tried on a Win XP machine, and it did not work.

Even when I do open it in a Win 7 machine, browsing through the file's is really slow. Does anyone know why? It also sometimes freezes for like 10-30secones on "not responding" then if you wait it will eventually come back.

[slugworth]

usually drives that big are ntfs
xp should see fat32 fine.
make sure you are using a usb2.0 port on the pc
mac should see it also

[wainbo]

usually drives that big are ntfs
xp should see fat32 fine.
make sure you are using a usb2.0 port on the pc
mac should see it also

+1 NTFS is the way to go, especially with Windows 7. FAT32 has a limitation of 4GB.

[slugworth]

a computer that crashes is better off with ntfs,better recovery.
fat32 has a filesize limit of 4GB,the drive itself can be big.

[ran025]

If you are going to put dvd rips or blueray movies on it you would have to format to NTFS. Fat32 is just so limited with the large file sizes.

[Pollypurabred]

Try these files. Downloaded into Free/Shareware section.

http://www.satfix.net/showthread.php?95720-Fat32-2tb&p=652814#post652814