Converting drive to NTFS

[pfoerste]

My c:\ drive is formatted NTFS and my back up drive partitioned to d:\ & e:\ is Fat 32. Should I convert this HD to NTFS?

Is there a down side to doing it or does it make any difference?

Thanks!

[SuperSparks]

The only downside is that if the volume wasn't fromatted using WinXP you may end up with a 512 byte cluster size, which isn't great for performance. This article explains what you need to do to avoid that:

Converting FAT32 to NTFS

[pfoerste]

Thanks for the reply SuperSparks. I'll print that and study it. I use that drive only for backup, so if there is no advantage and it don't cause problems with Windows, I'll leave it alone.

Thanks for the link.

[chris wolf]

keep in mind that data loss is possible when converting.

[pfoerste]

Thanks chris wolf for the reply.
I think I will just leave it alone until I get into a position to format and clean it off. I it is empty there should be no problems.
The e:\ drive partition is empty it is where I had my ghost back up for win98 before I Put XP on.