What is a FAT32 hard drive? How does it differ from an internal hard drive or a thumb drive?

2011-03-19 2:51 pm
My Windows desktop recognizes my old 250Gb external hard drive as a FAT32, but my internal hard drive shows up as just drive "C", and my 8Gb Cruzer flash drive shows up as "USB storage device". Also, would a portable hard drive (I never owned one) be different from a FAT32 external hard drive?

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2011-03-24 3:59 pm
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2011-03-19 3:23 pm
"C:", "USB storage device" etc are just names that Windows gives to drives for easy identification.
Drives are where Windows stores data.

FAT32 is a file format, so is NTFS.
If you have Windows XP/Vista/7 and your C:\ is bigger than 32 GB than the file system on C: is NTFS.
If your external drive is showing up as a single disk of size ~250 GB than again its NTFS file system.
USB drives are normally formatted with FAT32 format.

So don't worry about FAT32/NTFS naming till you face any specific issues because of them.
2011-03-19 2:56 pm
FAT32 just describes the File System used, chances are your C is ntfs, and the usb storage is fat
more on file systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
2016-11-17 6:02 am
actual no longer elementary drives are constrained purely by capacity of the connectors on your motherboard. With a unmarried IDE connector you are able to set up 2 drives (a grasp and a Slave). in case you have 2 IDE connectors you're able to have 4 drives. notice that any IDE optical drives are risk-free in this finished so in case you have a DVD force it takes the placement of a no longer elementary disk. SATA drives have one connector for each force. you additionally can upload added disk controllers in a PCI slot to advance the form of no longer elementary disks you are able to incorporate into your equipment.


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