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Hi I was wondering if anyone could spare some advice on formatting my hard disk.

I recently aquired a laptop <1GHz 512mb RAM but only 15Gb hard disk> Currently it is using FAT32 but I would like to change to NTFS. Primarily because I have a 300Gb external HDD which is already in NTFS and so is my desk top computer. I presume that your external HDD would probably be better sharing the same file system/perhaps it has to? I am sure Pro Tools prefers NTFS as well...

Anyhoo down to buisness...how do I go about changing the file system? I right-clicked the drive icon in "My Computer", went to format then clicked the option NTFS from the drop down menu. It then says I will loose all data. This is where I decided to ask for some help. I don't have a windows XP disk so I really don't want to format the OS as well.

I wouldn't mind getting windows back to the orignal unmolested state however, as I still have some crap I can't seem to get rid of from the previous owner...is there any way to do this without the CD?

Any advice would be appriciated. Cheers!