formatting and harddrives

[Dan08]

well i'm going for a format cause my computers been really slow for some reason..could be the new 120gb harddrive i put in. Ne way i have a 40gb and a 120 gb harddrives. I tried to format the 40gb and use it to operate and keep my music and all that junk on my 120 gb. But the only options i had were to format my 40gb using ntfs..unfortunately my 120gb is fat32. If i format my 40gb with ntfs, while keeping my 120gb fat32, what will happen?

using xp by the way, and is there a possibility that an extra harddrive would slow down the performance of your computer? It was lagging really bad, everything took a long time to load and stuff was freezing for like 30-60 secs b4 loading.

[michael_dias]

the best option would be to actually connect the 40 gb hdd to a different IDE connector, maybe the one with the cd drive??
because that would speed up the performance of ur new drive, also i could suggest that you keep the 40 gb hdd as the slave drive which would assist in speeding up the new 120 gb drive.

[Steven03251981]

Originally posted by Dan08
well i'm going for a format cause my computers been really slow for some reason..could be the new 120gb harddrive i put in. Ne way i have a 40gb and a 120 gb harddrives. I tried to format the 40gb and use it to operate and keep my music and all that junk on my 120 gb. But the only options i had were to format my 40gb using ntfs..unfortunately my 120gb is fat32. If i format my 40gb with ntfs, while keeping my 120gb fat32, what will happen?

using xp by the way, and is there a possibility that an extra harddrive would slow down the performance of your computer? It was lagging really bad, everything took a long time to load and stuff was freezing for like 30-60 secs b4 loading.

I agree with the above post and would also like to mention that if you want that Fat32 to be NTFS it's easy to acomplish.

Go to command prompt:

C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs

Note: C being what ever drive you are wanting to convert.


Steve