Deb, Make sure you burn a set of recovery dvds (or cds depending on which your system makes) if your machine did not come with them before you do anything else. The reason some computers ship as FAT 32 instead of NTFS is so that you can boot to a recovery partition to reinstall the OS, etc. if something gets screwed up badly. Most of them use a Windows 98 boot to access the partition and you can't accesses NTFS from a Windows 98 bootable disk.
We just went through something similar with my husband's new computer but we went straight to Vista since I've already got it. In fact, I've been running Vista exclusively since October and 95% of the time for a couple of months before that. Cheryl D Wise MS MVP FrontPage http://by-expression.com - new forums: http://forum.by-expression.com Online instructor led training http://starttoweb.com Now registering for our January 2007 Expression & CSS classes -----Original Message----- From: PBC Web Thanks for the info, MOU. Have further questions .. what happens when I have to reformat the computer? I try to do that about once a year. Will the NTFS stay in place or would I need to do it again? Is this a very time consuming process that I need to allow mega time for? Do you recommend I do my external hard drive as well? What about the D drive, the one that the system stuff is on that holds everything since you don't get a reformat cd w/the machine? Do I do that one as well? Yeah, you'd think if it's that much better especially w/Vista on the horizon that this drive would have come NTFS. Your comment about minimizing space has probably given me my answer to why my previous computer showed a total of 18G of info on it and I put the same stuff on this new one and I'm at 25G. I couldn't figure out why that would happen but now I think I know. Is there anything I need to watch out for in the process? ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: [email protected] To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
