Q: What is the difference between NTFS driver and FAT32 driver? I need to use FAT32 driver to do some operation, but all my drives was NTFS... how can i change it into FAT32?
A: FAT32 only allows you to create 32 GB partitions, while NTFS allows you to create 2 TB (Terabytes or 2048GB). There are advantages of using FAT32, it's portable across OS types, for example if you have linux / mac, they can ready FAT32 easily. While you can get tools to read NTFS for linux or mac, writing to NTFS can be iffy using those modes. You'll have to format the drive to change the partition, but there are tools that will let you change the partition size to make room for another partition that you can then format into FAT32. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/ Make sure you backup your important data first though.
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