If you use manufacturers disc, or (Maxtor, Seagate, Asus Etc.) It has menu options to Zero Or One the drive or to format Fat or NFTS, whether its storage or primary OS drive. I have used Maxtor CD and Floppy to format different HD`S and so far its worked well. When windows only gives me a choice to format in NFTS, I use the disc or floppy to change to fat. I have a 500 GB Iomega storage drive all fat 32. I know NFTS is more secure but its just my preference because I like to play.
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