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How long should it take to format a hard drive to FAT32?
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<blockquote data-quote="2cvbloke" data-source="post: 734757" data-attributes="member: 199791"><p>Yep, FAT32 takes ages, not to mention it's actually pretty wasteful in terms of efficiently marking the drive's useable parts, NTFS generally provides more space, unless it's for something non-windowsy, it's better to not use FAT32 on anything bigger than 20GB in my opinion as it was made for Windows 95/MSDOS 7, so it's old hat these days (not that NTFS is new, but it's still more efficient)... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2cvbloke, post: 734757, member: 199791"] Yep, FAT32 takes ages, not to mention it's actually pretty wasteful in terms of efficiently marking the drive's useable parts, NTFS generally provides more space, unless it's for something non-windowsy, it's better to not use FAT32 on anything bigger than 20GB in my opinion as it was made for Windows 95/MSDOS 7, so it's old hat these days (not that NTFS is new, but it's still more efficient)... :) [/QUOTE]
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