fat32

I have a dell processor running at 2.18GHz with 4 GB of ram. When I got it I just used a 32 bit version of Vista. I am now ready to install Windows 7 and was wondering if there would be a probem of installing a 64 bit version of Windows 7 over my 32 bit version of Vista. One thing that I...

Hi, I currently have 2 HDD's 1 - Western Digital 640 GB (SATA), partitioned into 450 GB and 190 GB 2 - Seagete 160 GB (IDE), paritioned into 100 GB and 60 GB When I installed windows 7 (fresh install), all four partitions were recognized properly. Though the drive letter assignment was a...

I realise this will make me seem somewhat dinosaur-like, but for a very good reason, I would like to install Win 7 on a Fat32 partition. I cannot find any way to do so. Can anyone provide a means to do this, even perhap using Partition Magic or Acronis etc to convert the partition to Fat 32...

I recently fixed an Acer laptop for a friend of mine. The disk was almost full, and the registry was corrupted - this laptop was running VISTA - so this problem may be a part of both vista and 7. The registry was no hope for, so I used a Linux live CD to copy some files (backup) to an external...

What an adventure!! I'm posting this in the hopes of preventing someone, somewhere some grief if they use a similar approach to setting up a new HDD. I just purchased a new, larger (Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm HDD,320 GB) to replace the 200 GB Momentus 7200 rpm drive I've been using for awhile...

i purchased a verbatim 16 gig usb drive, that had readyboost signatures on the box. once i got it home, i tried to reformat it from the default fat32 file system, to ntfs. why it comes with fat32 on it is something i don't quite understand anyway, but that's beside the point... anyway, windows...

Windows 7 and HFS+ (Mac OS X extended File System) [SOLVED] For anyone who may have stumbled upon this: I solved this and directions for accessing HFS+ partitions using MacDrive are posted at the bottom of the next post. I'm not quite sure where to put this, so please do move it to a more...

I have a flash drive that has been sitting around for awhile, I finally decided to do somehting with it, and low and behold, its FAT32. Obviously, Vista had some serious issues with FAT32 flash drives, but I had high hopes for 7. It worked the first time I inserted it, and then when I tried to...

I have new HD 160GB and my main OS for now will be XP sp3, but I would like to install W7 as well. Wish list: I like to have option to boot in to OS of my choice My main OS will be XP sp3 for now, W7 later if I like it How should I setup partitions on my HD, (how many, how big, NTFS or FAT32...

Hi guys just tested trying to install W7 on a FAT disk -- no-go it appears it will only install on NTFS although it can read / write FAT32 disks (and FAT 16 if you still have them --maybe some SD cards etc). There's no reason anymore to use FAT32 anyway - even LINUX can read / write NTFS as...

Hi guys This post doesn't relate to W7 per se but I'm putting it here since it could be of use whilst you are testing. Hopefully everybody is making backups and I know some of you use large USB external drives. These are generally formatted with FAT32 and the problem now arises if you want to...

First off: I have ONE hard drive to work with here (not counting the fact that I'm on another computer to type this up) I can partition/format that hard drive ANY way required. The hard drive is currently partitioned as such: 40~GB NTFS (partition 1, empty), 7GB NTFS (.isos contained here)...

Windows Vista Enterprise LAN problems Hi all, I m a new member of this community. Take my warm wishes for ur good health and a great carrier. I have some LAN problems in Windows Vista and I m here ask all of u to solve my problem. I have three PCs connected via LAN, all running windows vista...

Should anyone be in the same boat ... Because of the high cost of full Vista versions, I purchased an upgrade. The thing is that with brand computers or some brand computers, it looks like that Xp home is installed on a FAT32 partition and Vista home premium wont install on that. I have an...